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Therapist Reveals the No. 1 Red Flag to Look For in a Friendship

Caroline Kee

TODAY.com·2025

In TODAY.com's Expert Tip of the Day, a therapist reveals the no. 1 red flag to look for in a long-term friendship and how to tell if it's worth fighting for or time to let go.

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Lifestyle Feminism on RedNote: Digital Platforms, Mediated Intimacy, and the Duality of an Enclaved Feminist Public Sphere

Hongkun Wang, Jiang Chang

Social Media + Society·2025

This article examines everyday feminism on RedNote (Xiaohongshu) through the lens of affective politics, exploring how feminists repurpose a consumerist digital platform to cultivate feminist publics within a socio-political environment that is largely unreceptive. The analysis reveals that mediated intimacy underpins the everyday practices of RedNote feminists, facilitating the formation of intimate publics. These practices strategically engage the platform’s vernacular to articulate a “lifestyle feminism,” framing feminist politics as a non-confrontational, identity-based lifestyle rather than an overt ideological stance. While this approach nurtures a popularized feminist enclave, it is accompanied by inherent tensions: limited intersectionality, insularity, and susceptibility to platform co-optation may transform this ostensibly empowering mode of feminist politics into its opposite, inadvertently contributing to the depoliticization and censorship it seeks to resist.

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How do Healthy Political Discussions Invigorate Online Participation? Evidence from 17 European Countries

Laia Castro, Yannis Theocharis, Agnieszka Stępińska, David Nicolas Hopmann, Christian Schemer, Toril Aalberg, Ana Sofia Cardenal, Nicoleta Corbu, Claes de Vreese, Frank Esser, Karolina Koc-Michalska, Jörg Matthes, Tamir Sheafer, Sergio Splendore, James Stanyer, Jesper Strömbäck, Václav Štětka, Peter Van Aelst, Alon Zoizner

Social Media + Society·2025

Social media provide unprecedented opportunities for public deliberation. However, a growing number of users perceive negativity in political debate taking place in those venues and are increasingly frustrated when discussing politics with those they disagree with. In this article, we test the proposition that perceiving online discussions as healthier (i.e. more polite and civil) than offline discussions invigorates online political participation. We rely on an online survey fielded in 17 European countries on more than 28,000 individuals. Our findings indicate that being embedded in healthier discussions on social media is more of an important predictor of online participation for those respondents reporting higher political discussion fatigue and less so for those perceiving online discussions as fun. Overall, our study offers cross-national evidence of why and for whom exposure to healthy political discussions online might be mobilizing.

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From Politics to Entertainment: Exploring “News Finds Me” Perceptions Across News Topics

Afrooz Mosallaei, Luxuan Wang, Katherine Ognyanova

Social Media + Society·2025

The “News Finds Me” (NFM) perception captures the common belief that one can stay informed without actively seeking news. This study aims to extend previous research by comparing the widely used general NFM measure with topic-specific perceptions of entertainment, sports, politics, COVID-19, and climate change news. We assess the strength, predictors, and outcomes of NFM perceptions across those different thematic domains. Our findings show that NFM perceptions are stronger for soft news (entertainment and sports) compared to hard news (politics, COVID-19, climate change). In addition, interest in a news topic is associated with lower NFM perceptions for hard news and higher perceptions for soft news. While the traditional NFM measure reflects “News Finds Me” perceptions in politics and COVID-19 well, it is not as effective in capturing perceptions of climate change and soft news. Our results emphasize the need to explore different news genres to better understand news consumption beliefs and behaviors.

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Projecting Culture Through Hashtag Activism: The #IAmABlackMan Challenge on Instagram

Candice L. Edrington, Tara M. Mortensen, Odera Ezenna

Social Media + Society·2025

The purpose of this study was to analyze Instagram photos posted by Black men with the #IAmABlackMan challenge as part of the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement to (a) understand the overall sentiments surrounding the hashtag challenge, (b) assess the nature of cultural projection as visually communicated through Instagram, and (c) examine how others interpret the cultural projection of these Black men through the images. This study uses a mixed-methods approach comprised of a social media insights sentiment analysis, qualitative and quantitative semiotic visual analyses, a qualitative and quantitative survey, and thematic analysis to analyze the images, comments, and perceptions of posts using the #IAmaBlackMan hashtag on Instagram.

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Why Do News Sharers Choose Not to Share News? A Self-Presentation Model of Deliberate News Withholding on Social Media

Jennifer Ihm, Eun-mee Kim

Social Media + Society·2025

What news spreads on social media equally depends on what news users do and do not share. However, prior research has predominantly focused on successful news sharing , overlooking the equally consequential behavior of deliberate news withholding. This study addresses that gap by proposing a self-presentation model of deliberate news withholding on social media, integrating three dominant approaches previously used to examine successful news sharing: (1) the informational approach focusing on the virality of news content, (2) the structural approach emphasizing social media network characteristics, and (3) the relational approach centered on users’ self-presentation and management of relationships with their audience. Specifically, this study combines two types of data: (1) survey data from 408 users and (2) a text analysis of news content they withheld in their three most active chatrooms. We examine how users selectively withhold news with varying levels of emotionality, argumentativeness, and hard or soft news value, depending on the characteristics of their audience networks – particularly network size and tie strength – and in relation to three self-presentational goals: self-construction, privacy protection, and audience-pleasing. Findings show that users strategically withhold varied types of news content across different user-audience networks to meet distinct self-presentational goals, thereby managing audience expectations and curating their online image. By shifting attention from news sharing to news withholding, this study offers a more complete account of how everyday users shape news flows and social discourse on social media.

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Antidepressant Trial Duration Versus Duration of Real-World Use: A Systematic Analysis.

William Ward, Alyson Haslam, Vinay Prasad

The American journal of medicine·2025

Antidepressant use is rising globally, with increasing duration of real-world prescribing. While the FDA considers 6-8 week trials adequate for regulatory approval, guidelines recommend prolonged treatment, raising questions about evidence supporting long-term prescribing practices. This descriptive review analyzed 52 placebo-controlled randomized trials (n = 10,116) of the 10 most commonly prescribed antidepressants, sampled at 5-year intervals (1978-2023). We compared trial durations with real-world usage patterns from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and assessed methodological characteristics including standardized scales, withdrawal monitoring, and taper protocols. The median duration of antidepressant use in the United States was approximately 5 years, while the median trial duration was 8 weeks (IQR: 6-12 weeks). Among trials, 88.5% (n = 46) lasted ≤12 weeks, 11.5% (n = 6) randomized participants beyond 12 weeks, and none exceeded 52 weeks. Few trials monitored withdrawal symptoms (3.8%), included taper protocols (18.9%), or reported post-treatment outcomes (1.9%). A substantial discordance exists between the typical 8-week duration of clinical trials and the median 5-year real-world use of antidepressants. This gap, compounded by inadequate monitoring for withdrawal effects and post-treatment outcomes, raises important questions about the evidence supporting current long-term prescribing practices. Publicly funded trials of longer duration that include monitoring for withdrawal and relapse are necessary to determine optimal antidepressant therapy duration.

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Grit in the Information Machine: Library Professionalism in a World Without Friction

Darin Freeburg

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology·2025

ABSTRACT The goal of eradicating friction has driven the development of information spaces. Yet, the problems associated with a loss of friction have led many to suggest ways to reintroduce friction. Unfortunately, libraries are often overlooked in these discussions. This poster outlines an initial framework for the role of librarianship in introducing necessary friction in ways that improve the quality of society's navigation of information spaces.

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Politics and Finance

Pat Akey, Nandini Gupta, Stefan Lewellen

2025

Rising government intervention, corporate political spending, and geopolitical rifts underscore the importance of the link between politics and finance. This review describes how politics affects firms, banks, households, and markets. Companies form political ties through board connections, lobbying, revolving-door hires, and contributions. In return, they gain access to procurement contracts, cheaper debt, bailouts, policy information, and reduced enforcement. Political ties are generally associated with increased shareholder value but can also be costly during periods of political disruption. Political factors spill over to banking, where banks favor connected firms and secure regulatory forbearance; to households, whose partisan beliefs shape investments; to asset markets, which price political risk; and to global capital markets, where investment and banking flows respond to geopolitical risks. We conclude with open questions, including which types of money matter most in politics, how politics influences relational contracts, and the need to integrate political economy factors into finance theory.

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Wildness, Mindfulness, and the Phenomenology of Voice-Hearing in Thailand

Julia Cassaniti, Chaiyun Sakulsriprasert, T M Luhrmann

Schizophrenia Bulletin·2025·1 citations

Background and Hypothesis Research has found that the content and valence of voices heard by persons with schizophrenia appear to be shaped by local culture. We interviewed twenty participants about their voices in Suan Prung Hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand to see if, and how, there appeared to be such local influences Study Design In an ethnographically driven and phenomenological study, we asked participants what their voices said; whether the voices ever told them what to do and if so, what; whether they knew the speakers; whether there were speakers they liked; whether they had hallucinations in other sensory modalities; and other related questions. Interviews lasted between 30 min and 2 h. Study Results Much content of these voice-hearing experiences reflected culturally specific themes. Only one person reported hearing violent commands. There were stories about the power of sacred things and powerful lineages, and cosmological stories about the power of nature. In this cultural context where talk about minds is highly elaborated, participants often said that if they had been more mindful, sati, they would not have heard voices. Most strikingly, many persons described their voices as associated with a kind of uncontrolled wildness of nature spirits. Conclusions We find that the felt disruption of the self-world boundary appears to be interpreted in Thailand as a kind of literal wildness, best countered by mindfulness. This seems to be an unusually explicit account of phenomenology of ipseity disorder and suggests that ipseity may be understood and experienced differently in different cultural worlds.

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Social contagion, the psychiatric symptom pool and non-suicidal self-injury.

Joel Paris

BJPsych bulletin·2025

There is evidence that social contagion plays a role in shaping the clinical presentation of some psychiatric symptoms, particularly affecting features that vary over time and culture. Some symptoms can increase so rapidly in prevalence that they become 'epidemic'. The mechanism involves a spread through peers and/or the media. Within broader domains of psychopathology, this process draws from a 'symptom pool' that can determine which specific symptoms will appear. This article illustrates these mechanisms by focusing on non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), a syndrome that has been subject to social contagion and whose prevalence may have increased among adolescents.

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Scrolling Through Chaos: The Implications of TikTok for Crisis Sensemaking

Christy Khoury, Jeff Hemsley

Social Media + Society·2025

This study explores the role of TikTok as a platform-based crisis information source, focusing on how users engaged in collective sensemaking during the 2020 Port of Beirut explosion. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research analyzes multimodal content, including video, comments, hashtags, and transcripts, to understand how users’ holistic information experience influenced sensemaking around the crisis event. Drawing on Dervin’s conceptualization of sensemaking, the study investigates how visual, auditory, and textual elements of TikTok videos facilitate dynamic, iterative information behaviors such as information seeking, sharing, and negotiation. The findings stress how the platform’s recommendation system influences crisis sensemaking and the implications specifically for Middle Eastern crises. Our analysis revealed intersemiotic dissonance—the tension arising from clashing semiotic meanings—highlighting the risk of presenting crisis discourse multimodally.

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