Leveraging the left: examining Russian left-leaning provocation on Instagram in 2020 by Gabrieli, L

“…By drawing together a novel dataset of Instagram reposts and posts by Russian provocation accounts, social network theory, and time-series modelling, I examine how three Fringenet media channels built their amplification network of followers. …”

Visual bordering: how refugee-serving organizations represent refugees on Instagram by Jhoti, A, Allen, WL

“…Contrasting with studies of mainly text-based representations of refugees, we examine refugee-serving organizations’ visual communications work on Instagram. Using a discourse-centered online ethnographic approach, we collected 191 posts made in early 2021 by five UK-based organizations. …”

'It’s just nice not to be on screens’: exploring the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and Instagram by O'Brien, C

“…This article discusses the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and the social media site Instagram in the context of digital ethnographic research with British potters during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”

Representativeness of social media in Great Britain: investigating Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, and Instagram by Blank, G, Lutz, C

Elephant ‘selfies’: evaluating the effectiveness of Instagram’s warning of the potential negative impacts of photo opportunities with wild animals by Harrington, LA, Elwin, A, D'Cruze, N

“…To address this issue, Instagram introduced a pop-up alert system that is triggered when users search for wild animal selfie hashtags (e.g. …”

The Social Structuration of Six Major Social Media Platforms in the United Kingdom: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ and Pinterest by Blank, G, Lutz, C

The Social Structuration of Six Major Social Media Platforms in the United Kingdom: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ and Pinterest by Blank, G, Lutz, C

Identifying new frontiers for social media engagement in global surgery: An observational study by Navarro, S, Mazingi, D, Keil, E, Dube, A, Dedeker, C, Stewart, KA, Ncube, T, Rickard, J, Lavy, C, Tuttle, T

“…Two public domains were included in the search: Instagram and Twitter. Posts were selected by filtering for one hashtag: #GlobalSurgery. …”

Zahra Khaki - Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) by Khaki, Z

“…The following study aimed to explore the impact of pro-recovery Instagram posts on self-efficacy related to recovery, with self-esteem and hope being explored as secondary aims. …”

Divergences between mainstream and social media discourses after COP26, and why they matter by Sanford, M, Painter, J

“…In this paper, we compare the evaluations of the UN climate conference held in Glasgow, Scotland in 2021 (COP26) across a sample of English-language mainstream news outlets in four countries with those of prominent activists, politicians, international organizations, and celebrities on Facebook and Instagram. We find strong differences in the two media arenas, with news outlets presenting the summit as a moderate success and social media leaders characterizing it as a failure. …”

Public service news and social media by Sehl, A, Cornia, A, Nielsen, R

“…The social media platforms of our focus are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.…”

Empowering growth from within: cultivating conditions for intrapreneurship to thrive by Prats, MJ, Kislenko, S

“…To paraphrase this idea in the wisdom of Seth Godin, it is Blockbuster that should have invented Netflix and, by the same line of reasoning, Polaroid should have been the one to bring Instagram to market. But they didn’t. Not only did Blockbuster and Polaroid not capitalize on their inherent wisdom with an eye to the future, they lost to their competitors that were innovating and encouraging internal (or corporate) entrepreneurship, which led to them both having to eventually close up shop all together. …”

The IRA, social media and political polarization in the United States, 2012-2018 by Howard, P, Ganesh, B, Liotsiou, D, Kelly, J, François, C

“…In this analysis, we investigate how the IRA exploited the tools and platform of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube to impact US users. …”

Digital news report 2023 by Newman, N, Fletcher, R, Eddy, K, Robertson, CT, Nielsen, RK

“…The report documents how video-based content, distributed via networks such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube are becoming more important for news, especially in parts of the Global South, while legacy platforms such as Facebook are losing influence. …”

Social media very widely used, but use for news and information about COVID-19 is declining by Fletcher, R, Kalogeropoulos, A, Nielsen, R

“…We find that: (i) the use of social media in general has remained consistent during the coronavirus pandemic, but the use of many social networks specifically for news and information about COVID-19 fell from April to June, (ii) with Facebook and Twitter (both used by 12%) the social networks most widely-used for news and information about COVID-19, and with fewer people saying they use YouTube (5%), WhatsApp (3%) and Instagram (4%). However, (iii) around 10% say that they trust news and information about COVID-19 on social media, video sites and messaging apps.…”

Connecting the spots: Leopard print fashion and Panthera pardus conservation by Good, C, Burnham, D, Moorhouse, T, Macdonald, D

“…Global interest is documented and quantified by leveraging user–generated internet data (Google Trends Index), the traditional editorial media (Lexis Nexis), and social media (Instagram). The results suggest little correlation between interest in leopard print and interest (or concern) over leopards in the wild. …”

On the changing colour of food and drink by Spence, C

“…A number of modernist chefs, especially those fond of molecular gastronomy/cuisine, and mixologists, have also become increasingly interested in (changing) the colour of the foods and drinks that they serve (either to surprise or entertain their guests, or else to play to the Instagram crowd). Intriguingly, several new chemical/technical means of changing the appearance properties of food and drink in real-time have been developed recently, thus raising the question of how people will respond. …”

Platform governance: the transnational politics of online content regulation by Gorwa, R

“…<p>Billions of people around the world use services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube every day to access information, engage in conversation, and stay in touch with friends and family. …”

Commitment issues: toward an understanding of young people's social media choices in the multi-platform era by Polonski, V

“…The research focuses on young adults in the UK and their use of four popular SNSs: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. </p> <p>Findings indicate that network size has only a marginal effect on commitment, whereas the effect of identity performance is more pronounced, albeit in different ways on different sites. …”

Applications of social data science to environmental communication on social media by Sanford, M

“…The fourth and final empirical chapter (Chapter 6) compares the topic and sentiment framing used to discuss COP26 conference outcomes in a sample of English-language mainstream (Australia, India, UK, and US) and social media (Facebook and Instagram), paying particular attention to how different stakeholders (major news outlets, politicians, activists, and NGOs) overlap and diverge in their commentary and discussing what implications this has for the development of coherent public dialogue on environmental policy moving forward.…”