Social Media and Society: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics

Sujon, Zoetanya, Dyer, Harry and Bonow Soares, Felipe (2025) Social Media and Society: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics. Social Media + Society, 11 (3). ISSN 2056-3051

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Abstract

The Special Issue on Platforms, publics, and anti-publics focused on the complex intersection of platforms, including issues around their ownership, datafication, business models, and algorithms; and the emergence of publics and anti-publics online, which has been increasingly impacted by platforms infrastructures and designs. This Special Issue underscores the need to understand how online publics are influenced by sociotechnical affordances and shaped by the political and ideological influence of platforms’ governances. The articles featured in this issue explore the role of digital platforms in relation to sociability and public discourse; and dive into the discussion of publics, marked by the emergence of online communities and sociability online, and anti-publics on social media, poisoned by political propaganda and online abuse. The articles included in the issue are extended versions of the research presented at the 2024 International Conference on Social Media and Society (#SMSociety)

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Additional Information:	Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Uncontrolled Keywords:	anti-publics,platforms,publics,social media,society,cultural studies,communication,computer science applications ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3316
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Critical Cultural Studies In Education Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Media Equality
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	21 Aug 2025 15:30
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2026 01:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100208
DOI:	10.1177/20563051251368234

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