Social media conversation is like a topographic map and the Pew Research Center is creating intense, visually-rich "maps" or charts to show you how. According to a new 57-page report entitled ...

Social media offers a wealth of signals for understanding financial market behavior, and the key to leveraging them may lie ...

Twitter's new data access rules will make social media research harder. February 9, 2023 7:00 AM ET. By . ... researchers can make intricate maps of how clusters of users relate to each other, ...

In contrast to modern concerns, some new research has found some possible positive effects for teens using social media.

Because studies of social media often use enormous samples, sampling biases are rarely corrected for, and often even not acknowledged at all, write Pfeffer and Ruths.

The use of social media is contributing to declining attention spans, emotional volatility, and compulsive behaviors among ...

This column has again reviewed hundreds of papers over the past year and tried to select a diverse mix of research that speaks to important issues. Here are a dozen papers from 2014 that we feel may ...

Social media use is more strongly linked to bad mental health for adolescents and teenagers during years around puberty and when they’re probably about to leave home, according to a new study. ...

The tweet was part of a spike in social media activity that now comes hand-in-hand with natural disasters. This time, a team from MIT’s Urban Risk Lab put social media to work in one Florida county.

While many scientists share the concern, there is little research to prove that social media is harmful — or to indicate which sites, apps or features are problematic. There isn’t even a ...