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Journal of Social Media Research (JSOMER) is an international, interdisciplinary, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal dedicated to rigorous and ethically responsible research on social media. The journal welcomes scholarship from the social and behavioral sciences, humanities, education, communication, health and medical sciences, natural and environmental sciences, engineering, and computational sciences. Regardless of disciplinary origin, social media must constitute a substantive component of the research question, methodology, data, or interpretation of findings. JSOMER publishes full-text scholarly content in English on a quarterly basis, with issues released in March, June, September, and December. The journal operates under a diamond publishing model and charges no submission fees, article processing charges, or publication fees.  View full journal description

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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2026): Vol 3 Issue 3
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The countries of the authors contributed to this issue (in alphabetical order):
Canada, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and USA

Published: 03.09.2026

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Original (Research) Article

  • "Guess I'm not alone": A qualitative exploration of ADHD, mental health, and self-diagnosis comment sections on TikTok

    Katie Rose Saunders, Mariel Marcano-Olivier, Josephine Cornell, Athfah Akhtar
    172-186
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.29329/jsomer.108

  • More than screen deep - finding the inflection point of problematic social media use

    Rene Arnold, Alina Deana Machande
    187-202
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.29329/jsomer.112

  • “Account run by mom/dad”: An ecosystemic five-country study of musically gifted children’s social media exposure and visibility

    Guadalupe López-Íñiguez
    203-221
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.29329/jsomer.125

  • Conspiracy beliefs: the impact of social media, critical thinking, political beliefs, and paranoid ideation

    Hayley Vance, Brandie Green, Kaitlin Bagger, Michelle Foust, James Jordan
    222-233
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.29329/jsomer.104

  • How, not just how much: Bidirectional associations between social media use and internalizing psychopathology

    Vasileia Karasavva, Adri Khalis, Amori Mikami
    234-253
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.29329/jsomer.107
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