Question

2025-2026 works cited on the research of social media

Answer 1

I can help — but first a quick note: I don’t have live web access and my training data only goes to June 2024, so I can’t fetch or verify specific 2025–2026 publications. I can, however, give you a precise, reproducible plan to find, gather, and format 2025–2026 works on social media research, plus recommended venues, keywords, organizations, and citation templates so you can quickly assemble an accurate “Works Cited” list.

Before I proceed, a quick question:
- Do you want a general bibliography across all social-media topics, or focused areas (misinformation, mental health, algorithms/recommendation, content moderation, youth use, political polarization, advertising/influencers, etc.)?
- Which citation style do you need (APA, MLA, Chicago, BibTeX)?

If you want me to proceed now, below are immediate, concrete resources and steps you can use to compile 2025–2026 citations quickly.

1) Best databases and aggregators to search
- Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) — broad, supports date filtering and alerts
- Web of Science / Scopus — for peer-reviewed coverage and citation counts
- PubMed / PMC — for health and mental-health related social-media work
- arXiv / SSRN / bioRxiv / medRxiv — preprints (computer science, social science, public health)
- CrossRef API — programmatic DOI lookups
- ACL Anthology — computational linguistics
- ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore — computer science & HCI
- Conference proceedings: ICWSM, WWW, CHI, CSCW, NeurIPS (safety/ethics tracks), FAT* / FAccT
- Publishers/journals: Nature Human Behavior, PNAS, Science Advances, Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

2) Recommended keywords / query examples
- "social media" AND misinformation 2025..2026
- "algorithmic recommendation" AND "social media" 2025..2026
- "social media" AND "mental health" 2025..2026
- "content moderation" AND platform 2025..2026
- "ai-generated content" AND "social media" 2025..2026
- "influencer marketing" AND "consumer behavior" 2025..2026
- "political polarization" AND "social networks" 2025..2026

3) Organizations and reports to check (often publish timely reports)
- Pew Research Center — social media trends and public opinion
- Data & Society / Center for Humane Technology
- Partnership on AI
- OECD / EU policy reports (Digital Services Act follow-ups)
- UK Ofcom / Ofcom social media reports
- US FTC / Congressional reports on platforms
- CSET and Brookings Institution

4) Key venues/authors to watch (so you can filter 2025–2026 output)
- Journals listed above; conferences ICWSM, WWW, CHI, CSCW, FAccT
- Authors often publishing in this space: danah boyd (Data & Society), Sinan Aral, Eytan Bakshy, Kate Starbird, Filippo Menczer, Duncan Watts, Claire Wardle — check for new work or collaborators in 2025–2026.

5) How to capture and verify items quickly
- Use Google Scholar date filter for 2025 and 2026; export BibTeX citations.
- Set Google Scholar Alerts for your keywords (“social media misinformation 2025”).
- Use CrossRef or DOI.org to confirm publication metadata and DOIs.
- For preprints, record repository, version, date, and DOI or arXiv ID.
- For official reports, cite publisher, report title, date, and URL.

6) Citation templates you can paste/complete
- APA (article): Author(s). (Year). Title. Journal Name, volume(issue), pages. https://doi.org/xxxx
- MLA (article): Author(s). "Title." Journal Name vol. #, no. #, Year, pp. xx–xx. DOI.
- Chicago (notes/biblio): Author(s). Year. "Title." Journal Name volume, no. issue (Month): pages. DOI.
- BibTeX (article):
@article{key,
author = {Last, First and Last2, First2},
title = {Title},
journal = {Journal Name},
year = {2025},
volume = {xx},
number = {yy},
pages = {pp--pp},
doi = {10.xxxx/xxxxx}
}

7) Examples of citation entries you might expect to find (fill in after lookup)
- Journal article (APA): Smith, J., & Lee, A. (2025). Recommendation algos and political polarization on ShortLink. Social Media + Society, 11(2), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.XXXX/XXXXX
- Report (organization): Pew Research Center. (2025). Public views on social media, misinformation, and trust. https://www.pewresearch.org/xxxxx
- Conference paper (BibTeX):
@inproceedings{doe2026,
author = {Doe, Jane and Roe, John},
title = {Detecting AI-generated text on social platforms},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ICWSM 2026},
year = {2026},
pages = {100--110},
doi = {10.xxxx/icwsm.2026.xxxxx}
}

8) Quick CrossRef API example (so you can programmatically get 2025–2026 DOIs)
- Example Curl (replace query): curl "https://api.crossref.org/works?query=social+media+misinformation&filter=from-pub-date:2025-01-01,until-pub-date:2026-12-31&rows=20"
(This returns JSON with titles, authors, DOIs.)

9) Managing references
- Use Zotero (free) with browser connector; tag items "social-media-2025" etc.
- Export to BibTeX/EndNote/RefWorks for your paper.

10) Want me to do the next step?
I can:
- Draft a sample works-cited page template you can fill.
- Produce targeted search queries for Google Scholar and CrossRef tailored to your topic area(s).
- Provide a short list of likely 2025–2026 topics and what kinds of evidence to prioritize (e.g., longitudinal studies, randomized experiments, platform data vs survey vs computational).

Tell me which topics and citation style you want, and I’ll prepare either (A) a ready-to-fill works-cited template with search queries for each entry type, or (B) a short script/commands you can run to retrieve 2025–2026 entries from CrossRef/Google Scholar.