Digital Culture, Platforms, and Social Relationships

 
 
JSOMER Thematic Collection 07

Digital Culture, Platforms, and Social Relationships

Research on platform cultures, online communities, cyber abuse, sharenting, social relationships, generational expectations, and everyday digital participation.

This thematic collection brings together previously published JSOMER articles on digital culture, platforms, and social relationships. The collection is intended to support topic-based discovery across volumes and issues and will be reviewed as new JSOMER content is published.

Inclusion Criterion

Articles are included when platform culture, online communities, mediated relationships, family practices, cyber abuse, social expectations, or everyday participation in networked environments is a primary concern.

Collection Information

Curated by: JSOMER Editorial Office
Last updated: July 21, 2026

This curated discovery collection is not a separately published issue. Every article retains its original bibliographic record and version of record.

Articles in This Collection

01
 

Bestseller best Practices: A digital ethnography of #BookTok content on TikTok

Dominic Rascati, Susan Grantham

Review Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 2 (2025)  ·  2025

02
 

New love, old stereotypes: ageism in social media discourses on the golden bachelor

Alixe Ménard, Alison Chasteen, Mateja van Gameren, Nefissa Bedri, Michelle Yang, Christopher Belanger, Sarah Fraser

Review Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 3 (2025)  ·  2025

03
 

Information and communication technologies: the expansion of individual freedom and the gradual conquest of the universal

Nikolaos Sfakianos

Review Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 3 (2025)  ·  2025

04
 

Social media platforms as enablers of college students’ experiences of cyber abuse

Lauren R. Shapiro, Angela M. Crossman

Original Research Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 5 (2025)  ·  2025

05
 

Book Review: From legacy media to going viral: generational media use and citizen engagement

Bharat Dhiman

Book Review  ·  Vol. 2, No. 3 (2025)  ·  2025

06
 

Social media advertising of gamified problem gambling: a mixed-method analysis of the advertising nexus and financial motivation of Gen Zs

Yaw Odame Gyau

Original Research Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 4 (2025)  ·  2025

07
 

Milestones and mindsets: how social media shapes young adults’ expectations and emotional well-being

Romilly O'Connell, Neil Anthony Daruwala

Original Research Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 5 (2025)  ·  2025

08
 

Unregulated gambling on social media platforms exacerbates risk of problem gambling in a large national sample

Michael Sofis, Mackenzie Slade, Ari Kirshenbaum

Original Research Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 5 (2025)  ·  2025

09
 

Changes over time in TikTok behaviors and motivations and perceived consequences for public discourse and political polarization

Michael Langlais, Miya Shimada, Sofia Rhorer, Cassidy Bilsing

Original Research Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 4 (2025)  ·  2025

10
 

Posting parenthood: Patterns of sharenting and their impact on parent-child relationships

Michael Langlais, Chrystian Johnson, Briana Martinez

Original Article  ·  Vol. 3, No. 1 (2026)  ·  2026

11
 

Reflexive thematic analysis of ‘GlassChildren’ Reddit posts by siblings of autism

Katharine Starling, Oliver Mason

Original Article  ·  Vol. 3, No. 1 (2026)  ·  2026

12
 

Online motivations predict social media behaviors and emotional adjustment

Margaret Kleiser Polk, Lara Mayeux

Original Research Article  ·  Vol. 3, No. 2 (2026)  ·  2026

13
 

Scrolling into risk? A structural examination of social media use, demographics, and psychological factors in cyberbullying victimization

Yeojin Kim, Sung Eun Park

Original Research Article  ·  Vol. 3, No. 2 (2026)  ·  2026

14
 

Sharenting, digital parenting processes, and children’s problematic internet use: A cross-sectional study

Berke Taşçı, Bedia Sultan Önal

Original Research Article  ·  Vol. 3, No. 2 (2026)  ·  2026

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