#social media research

[netherworldpost]

Death of Twitter and sudden increase in enjoyment of social media

Prior to Twitter dying, I spent about 50% of my time there, and 40% of my time here on Tumblr, and the rest on Instagram.

I always felt a compulsion to be active on Twitter, I felt it would be good for the company, even though it was never terribly enjoyable for me, personally. I don’t have a great reason why. I curated my feed but it always felt like a losing battle.

Since EM bought Twitter, I have been spending about 75% of my social media time here on Tumblr, I keep YouTube on in the background when I’m working, and I’m getting into Pinterest.

Pinterest I feel is going to be extremely similar. I like to browse and file pins for 10 minutes while coffee is brewing or I’m waiting a meeting to start. It feels like “tumblr with broader image discovery.” Prior to this I never went on Pinterest. It had been years since I cracked it open.

YouTube -- I finally replaced my ancient television and after being perplexed with the new options (i am deeply, deeply a book person) -- is great for having in the background. I’m enjoying my time there immensely. I am not an overly active YouTube watcher. Prior to all of this I spent maybe 10 minutes on YouTube a year.

Tumblr -- I post here a lot. I enjoy it. I am using it less as a visual discovery platform than before (Pinterest is taking care of that), but I’m using it more and skipping text posts far less.

TikTok / Instagram -- I’m using Instagram now for more personal rambles, it is easy to format things for cross posting, so even minimal reward to the business is worth minimal effort. I can see myself using both Instagram and TikTok for very casual inking sessions or drawing sessions. 

Overall, like I say, I would rate my time on social media to be exceptionally less frustrating and equally-so more enjoyable.

The death (to me) of Twitter has improved my mental health.

I had no idea how much aggravation I allowed/invited with that platform. This is entirely unexpected and I’m sinking it into my brain.

Thank you? Elon Musk I guess?

#social media #small business marketing #social media research

[honeysucklepink]

So before Twitter’s inevitable crash...

I actually need some help.

I can live without my personal Twitter, where I only really follow college football and drag queens. However, I am embedded in a public relations class where we live tweet during lectures, and the professor I work with needs to extract the data so we can do a study on how students interact with classmates and course content. Basically we need to download all the Tweets from the last five years that used the class hashtag. 

Is there a tool (preferably free but I will also take cheap) that will pull historical tweets in a hashtag for me? I just need to download the tweets to a hard file and then be done. There are tools that will do the last week of tweets but I need to go back further.

#twitter #twitter analytics #twitter data #hashtag data #social media research #hurry before elon throws a fit and pulls the plug

[tam--lin]

In light of increasing anti-trans and anti-abortion laws in the United States, I am once again humbly requesting you inform yourself about jury nullification, your ability as a juror to vote against convicting people being prosecuted under unjust laws. Nullification was instrumental in legalizing abortion in Canada - it informed jurors can use it to help protect healthcare workers and protesters in the US, too.

#I am not a lawyer so please do not ask me questions - I will simply google them as you might #but I do care about this so so much #genuinely: read about it. post about it on social media. tell your friends who have jury duty about it #especially those in 'red' states #it can be so powerful #tam.txt #jury nullification #I still want to get embroidered 'research jury nullification' sweatshirts made.....

[mdminhajulk]

#fiverr #Data entry #web research #product list #Excel Data Entry #Flawless Work #Online Data Entry #Offline Data Entry #Copy Paste #Data Collection #CRM Data Entry #Email Collection #Find Emails #Google #Data Conversion #File Conversion #Typing Work #Data Scraping #Social Media Research #ECommerce Product Listing #Business Card Creation #Property Listing #Yellow Pages #Press Release Sites

[shootingstarrfish]

silly chibi doodles for an assignment :) i had an excuse to draw some lads and i took it

almost done with uni yay!!!

#obey me #omswd #asmodeus #solomon #satan #beelzebub #belphegor #asmo #beel #belphie #obey me asmodeus #obey me solomon #obey me satan #obey me beelzebub #obey me belphegor #my art #my tutor was like “yeah so if you like drawing you can get creative and draw something for this” and ofc i will never pass that up #i researched the effect of social media on individual identity so thats why theres so many phones haha #anyway its due in 2 hours byeee #obey me art

[quantumdragon42]

Hello! I’m Talia Feshbach, a linguistics major at Bryn Mawr College researching self-censoring on social media sites, specifically TikTok, Tumblr, and Twitter. Self-censoring is the practice of censoring taboo or forbidden words through character replacement or euphemism - for instance, writing 'kill' as 'k!ll.' I’m conducting an anonymous survey about people’s self-censoring habits on these and other platforms. If you are over 18, use any social media, and are a US citizen and/or resident, please consider filling out this survey! https://brynmawr.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3ZXUCkQ6Qk3s9lI

It is only 20 questions long and takes less than 5 minutes. If you can't respond or aren’t interested, please reblog or pass the survey on. As a quick note: please do not inform me if you have or haven’t filled out the survey, as it is intentionally anonymous. Feel free to contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions.

#linguistics #language #research #social media

[screecherofthenight]

Guys. GUYS. I was thinking about a Wolf 359 social media au and I came to an earth shattering realization. Kepler is a story time youtuber. he’s a fucking STORYTIME YOUTUBER. I’m having a moment.

#wolf 359 #kepler #warren kepler #jacobi is like that one locksmith guy on yt who dismantles locks in three seconds and insults them the whole time #Maxwell scams scammers back and goes on impassioned rants about the value and potential sentience of AI #Eiffel has a podcast. and a twitch. he’s on every social media platform #Minkowski does video essays on musical theatre #Hilbert has a blog documenting experiments and research #Lovelace is a gamer. you can interpret that how you want #they’re in a hype house. it SUCKS. #hera’s their manager <3

[alwaysbewoke]

A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X that had targeted a watchdog group for its critical reports about hate speech on the social media platform. In a blistering 52-page order, the judge blasted X’s case as plainly punitive rather than about protecting the platform’s security and legal rights. “Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation,” wrote District Judge Charles Breyer, of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, in the order’s opening lines. “Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose.” “This case represents the latter circumstance,” Breyer continued. “This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech.” X’s lawsuit had accused the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) of violating the company’s terms of service when it studied, and then wrote about, hate speech on the platform following Musk’s takeover of Twitter in October 2022. X has blamed CCDH’s reports, which showcase the prevalence of hate speech on the platform, for amplifying brand safety concerns and driving advertisers away from the site. In the suit, X claimed that it had suffered tens of millions of dollars in damages from CCDH’s publications. CCDH is an international non-profit with offices in the UK and US. Because of its potential to destroy the watchdog group, the case has been widely viewed as a bellwether for research and accountability on X as Musk has welcomed back prominent white supremacists and others to the platform who had previously been suspended when the platform was still a publicly-traded company called Twitter.

#elon musk #lawsuit #x (social media platform) #watchdog group #hate speech #social media #district judge charles breyer #us district court #northern district of california #center for countering digital hate #ccdh #terms of service #twitter #brand safety concerns #advertisers #damages #non-profit #research #accountability #white supremacists #publicly-traded company #white supremacy #racism #social justice #equality #end hate #anti-racism #racial equality #stop racism #no to hate

[meteorherd]

mentioned one of THE most famous linguistic psychologists ever in my GRADUATE LEVEL psych class during discussion and everyone looked at me like i was crazy, asked me who the fuck that was, and proceeded to start talking about tiktok and taylor swift. girl it’s so fucking over

#வார்த்தைகள் #NO ONE KNEW WHO CHOMSKY IS LIKE YOU HAVE ALL TAKEN FOUR YEARS OF PSYCHOLOGY…. #it’s actually like. terrifying how people in my field are just refusing to engage with it. #psych is just like. social media and celebrities and making fun of the mentally ill for them. #like genuinely no one gives a shit about using their research to help people it’s so bleak. #also this class just sucks. we’ve had fucking ‘debates’ about the barbie movie and girl math and girl dinner before. 😐

[gaycrittercentral]

Please hit the griddy, man...

Im getting desperate.

Pretty please with a big ass cherry on top?

Ack how could I leave you hangin for so long!! Lemme just amend that real quick

Oh. Oh no that’s not ideal. Max cmon don’t let them down they asked so nicely :(

Oh shit he lied he knows how!!!

#my god I am so out of touch. I had to do research to figure out what the griddy was #it’s probably bc tumblr is my only social media and nobody I follow has posted it #but now I am enlightened! excellent #also sorry for the sort of deep fried quality hhhdgshsbs I didn’t have the best lighting and I kinda just had to roll with it #I literally have a bedside lamp turned sideways illuminating my sketchbook rn lmaooooo #sam and max #sam and max freelance police #my art #asks

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

i think the diamond dogs should play improv games just bc it would amuse me, an ex theater kid, specifically

#ted and beard ofc are reading each others minds #trent is shockingly good at it but only when he forgets to be self conscious #also see: he does both best and worst with ted (best when he's not being self conscious #worst when somehow the prompt gets too touchy or 'romantic' bc Crush Crush Crush Brain Panic) #(please the image of ted in character hugging him or something and trent just. red. brain crashed. no longer improving just frozen. barely #manages to recover and even then it was not subtle. unclear if ted is a) genuinely oblivious b) teasing him and thinks trent knows that #c) something else(??) ) #roy is too stiff most of the time but if he gets really into it he gets REALLY into it. #best way to get this result is to involve phoebe or another child #higgins did community theater at some point and is the one teaching them all the games. beard also seems to have done intense research #but higgins is the one with EXPERIENCE #not that i think beard and ted couldn't have done an improv duo in college or something but in this scenario they did not #nate surprisingly is pretty good at it once he gets into it like it takes him a second but #then he's like. really getting into it and he's very quick on his feet #new way to go mad with power (affectionate): the rush you get when you make the perfect snap back comedic line/acting choice #also while trent is so good paired with so many of them i think he and nate would be a hilarious duo. they're SO funny. #they complement each other well and are both quick & clever #esp if it's about a mutual interest (although one of them taking the lead on something else like nate and music while the other plays off t #em is also good) but like #please i just had the iamge of them basically doing a bit where they're like. those mean old gay muppets in the theater? #like trent and nate improv duoing as some bitchy reviewers just going back and forth and it's so FAST and SO funny #beard records it and posts it somewhere and it goes viral. #god don't even get me started on the idea of some sort of official richmond social media/the gang posting random clips on social media #bc the ideas i have are so funny. #also largely trent centric but what do you want from me okay i'm just a little slut.

[organized-chaotic-disaster]

(Repost due to a misunderstanding on the final date to collect data)

Hey everyone! Feeling good about our bodies can be tough with societal pressure. I’m researching how social media impacts body image. If you’re 18 years or older, join our survey to help us understand! It’s quick and anonymous. Click the link below to participate.

Please share this post to help us get more responses!

Thank you!

[Link to the survey here! Survey closes on April 2nd, 2024]

#body image #survey #research #social media #comparison #(this is for a project for uni! I know the images look sus but I promise it's legit!)

[folatefangirl]

I found this article by Carlee Gomes on current American Puritanism in our media interesting, especially since while the article mostly focuses on heterosexuality, it's not hard to read it and make the jump to understand why censorship of this is associated with censorship of queer depictions as well in media and online.

Important quotes:

The current state of cultural and material decline plays an important role in the shift toward Puritanism in media and art, in consumer appetite, and in the political posture of the State. That is to say, with the compounding crises we are bombarded with (everything from climate disaster to rampant racialized police violence to genocide) as a part of our daily lives under late capitalism, the need for escape, and indeed, the need for that escape to be completely unchallenging and non-confrontational, has become imperative. Moreover, as control over our own material realities becomes less and less feasible, the last lone place we believe we can exercise agency is within the landscape of that which we consume. This has resulted in the consuming public approaching all media and art with a moral imperative — that which we consume must be perfectly virtuous, sanitized of all problematic or complicated ideas and depictions, because it has become the stand-in for our very realities, our very political action as citizens; consuming has become our praxis. [...] The desire to exclusively engage with media and art made by “unproblematic” artists is a direct result of Americans viewing media consumption as an inherently political act because that is the supreme promise of Western prosperity and the religion of consumerism, and because it’s seemingly all that’s left. We’ve been stripped and socialized out of any real political energy and agency. Our ability to consume is the only thing remaining that’s “ours” in late capitalism, and as a result it’s become a stand-in for (or perhaps the sole defining quality of) every aspect of being alive today — consuming is activism, it’s love, it’s thinking, it’s sex, it’s fill in the blank. When the act of consuming is all you have left and indeed the only thing society tells you is valuable and meaningful, the act must necessarily be a moral one, which is why people send themselves down manic spirals deciding what, who is “problematic” or not, because for us the stakes are that high now.

#carlee gomes #links #purity culture #media criticism #moralizing fiction #us politics #late stage capitalism #social commentary #censorship #not sure i 100% agree with all points by the author but i thought it was well researched and interesting #and i know my own sexuality was very screwed up by being in a cult upbringing lmao #so like. i am no expert on this particular subject #cinnia says stuff

[thoughtlessarse]

An experiment conducted by Dublin City University has found that the algorithms of some social media platforms are feeding male-identified accounts misogynistic and anti-feminist content.  One of the researchers behind the project, Professor Debbie Ging, said it shows that shutting down the accounts of ‘manfluencers’ like Andrew Tate doesn’t necessarily mean their content is being removed from platforms, so social media firms need to tackle harmful content in “more sophisticated ways.” Professors from the university’s Anti-Bullying Centre tracked the content apps recommended to ten ‘sockpuppet’ accounts on 10 blank smartphones, five on TikTok and five on Youtube Shorts. The researchers found that all of the male-identified accounts were fed male supremacist, anti-feminist or other extremist content, whether they sought out that kind of content or not. Each account received this content within the first 23 minutes of the experiment. The researchers found that once the account showed interest by watching this kind of content, the amount it was recommended “rapidly increased”. By the last round of the experiment, the study states, after the accounts (which had identified as being owned by a man during set-up) had watched 400 videos over 2-3 hours, the vast majority of the content being recommended was “toxic”, primarily falling into the alpha male and anti-feminist category. 

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#ireland #research #social media #tiktok #youtube #misogynist content #anti-feminist content #male accounts #algorithmic targetting

[the-terukane-archives]

honestly people who don’t speak out against the genocide in palestine because they’re ‘not educated enough to make an informed decision’ completely baffle me. like it’s not that complicated, people are literally being killed & their country is being colonized! if you’d take the time to research it for literally 10 seconds, you’d be able to easily see that the idf are obviously the bad guys here!

#by the way if you support israel literally get out. don’t even bother trying to argue with me about this. just get out. #like even when i first heard about it & hadn’t done any proper research yet i saw social media posts all over my dash & my friends’ stories #like i could not stay uneducated if i wanted to. there are social media posts explaining what’s going on all over the place! #not to say that you should only get your information from social media posts but. you get the point. #from remy #not headcanons

[black-quadrant]

I deeply appreciate people who don’t let their initial reactions to things be the deciding factor and seek information and clarification before passing judgement. not every first impression is accurate.

#rebloggable #this pertains to many aspects of social media #I’m sick of seeing all the damage incurred by jumping to conclusions the second you hear something #instead of just taking a moment to read or research