Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations
between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and …

Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in
fundamental ways, principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the …

In nationally representative samples of US adolescents (age: 13–18) and entering college
students, 1976–2017 (N= 8.2 million), iGen adolescents in the 2010s (vs. previous …

Studies have produced conflicting results about whether digital media (the Internet, texting,
social media, and gaming) displace or complement use of older legacy media (print media …

Twitter is a social media platform where over 500 million people worldwide publish their
ideas and discuss diverse topics, including their health conditions and public health events …

Introduction Image-based social media Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Flickr have
become sources of health-related information and tools for health communication. No known …

Current models of data access in social media research offer clear benefits, but are also
fraught in a number of ways, including by posing risks to user privacy, being constrained in …

There is growing interest in conducting public health research using data from social media.
In particular, Twitter “infoveillance” has demonstrated utility across health contexts. However …

Social media datasets are not always completely replicable. Having to adhere to
requirements of platforms such as Twitter, researchers can only release a list of unique …

Early studies tend to follow a simple, generic approach to define intermittent discontinuance
and permanent discontinuance without considering the unique life cycle, turnover rate, and …