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Evaluating the power of social media influencing mainstream media social representations of migrants in South African townships
The relationship between mainstream media and social media for news reporting is a complex one. Mainstream media news is relied on as a source of...
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A gender study of the social representations of dating violence in Chilean adolescents
The experiences and viewpoints of adolescents as regards dating violence in southern countries remain poorly documented. It is thus difficult to have...
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Religion and Migration: Visual Representations of Venezuelan Migration in Brazil
This article examines the humanitarian crisis stemming from Venezuelan migration to Brazil, focusing on the intersection between religion and...
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Social Representations and the Threat to Worldview: A Socio-psychological Perspective on Islamophobia
In the field of Social Psychology, the study of prejudice has received substantial attention, with a growing subset of literature focusing on...
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Representations of Virgin Young Adult Men in Internet Macro Memes
Virgin young adult men (VYAM) are often stigmatized for deviating from the social clock. Despite the importance of media in young adults’ lives, few...
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Mobility and the Social Differentiation of Rural Youth in Australia
Geographical mobility has become an integral element of the biographical trajectories of young people from rural areas. In this paper, we contend...
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The COVID-19 Crisis: Impact of Social Attitudes and Representations on Social Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
This chapter focuses on the social representations of COVID-19 as they are culturally constructed and shared in the African context and its...
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African American Women’s Representations on Television
Despite advances in technology that have eliminated or drastically reduced the impact of some traditional media in the US society, television has...
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Using the free listing technique to study consumers’ representations of traditional gastronomy in Argentina
The aims of this research were (i) to study with a sample of Argentine consumers the representations of traditional gastronomy through the free...
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Popular Representations
Popular representations can be studied as materials for the wider dissemination of an epistemic project of the addicted brain (EPAB). Their main...
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Collective Representations and Their Analysis
The discursive interview method was developed as an instrument for eliciting and reconstructing collective representations. In order to understand...
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Generation OnlyFans: Examining the Effects of “Raunch Culture” on Depression via Social Media Use and Social Comparisons
“Raunch culture” is a term describing the promotion of overtly sexual representations of women. This concept may provide people opportunities to...
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Representations of Sexually Inexperienced Emerging Adults in Fictional Television Series and Movies
Despite sexual imperatives and social norms marginalizing non-sexualities–referred to as compulsory sexuality –, representations of sexually...
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Musical Representations of COVID-19 on Social Media Among Young People in Nigeria
The outbreak of COVID-19 has witnessed various human responses both scientifically and socially. As a way of slowing down the infection rate, “social...
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Social Bond and Social Self
Modern Clinical Social Research bridges the gap between the psychological and macro-medium sociological and economic approaches to contemporary...
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Bonnie and Clyde’s crime wave: social banditry, social change, and political geography
This article discusses Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow’s 1932 to 1934 crime wave, using Hobsbawm’s concept of social banditry. The article examines...
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Active Inference and Social Actors: Towards a Neuro-Bio-Social Theory of Brains and Bodies in Their Worlds
Although research including biological concepts and variables has gained more prominence in sociology, progress assimilating the organ of experience,...
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Towards misinformation mitigation on social media: novel user activity representation for modeling societal acceptance
Intervention-based mitigation methods have become a common way to fight misinformation on Social Media (SM). However, these methods depend on how...
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Intersectional Perspectives on Homelessness and Social Work
This chapter draws on Winker and Degele’s (Eur J Women’s Stud 18(1):51–66, 2011) multilevel intersectional analysis framework to discuss social...
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The effects of floor plan representations on preferences for apartments
In the real-estate industry, floor plans are commonly used to communicate spatial layouts of housing alternatives to house hunters. Using the method...
