Journal Articles
Viejo Otero, P. & Scharlach, R. (forthcoming) "'We do not marshal your feed’: How AltTech platforms conceptualize safety" Platforms & Society.
Shifman, L., Trillò, T., Hallinan, B., Mizoroki, S., Green, A., Scharlach, R., & Frosh, P. (2025). The expression of values on social media: An analytical framework. New Media & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231156580
Rebecca Scharlach (2024). “How to Spark Joy: Strategies of Depoliticization in Platform’s Corporate Social Initiatives.” Social Media + Society. Link | Twitter/X Thread
Rebecca Scharlach and Blake Hallinan (2023). “The value affordances of social media engagement features.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, online first. Link | Twitter/X Thread
Tommaso Trillò, Blake Hallinan, Avishai Green, Bumsoo Kim, Saki Mizoroki, Rebecca Scharlach, Pyunghw Park, Paul Frosh, and Limor Shifman. “‘I love this photo, I can feel their hearts!’ How users across the world evaluate social media portraiture,” Journal of Communication, online first (2023): 1-12. Link
Rebecca Scharlach, Blake Hallinan, and Limor Shifman. “Governing principles: Articulating values in social media platform policies,” New Media & Society, online first (2023): 1-20. Link | Twitter Thread
Blake Hallinan, Bumsoo Kim, Saki Mizoroki, Rebecca Scharlach, Tommaso Trillò, Mike Thelwall, Elad Segev, and Limor Shifman. “The value(s) of social media rituals: A cross-cultural analysis of New Year’s resolutions,” Information, Communication, & Society 26, no. 4 (2023): 764-785. Link
Blake Hallinan, Rebecca Scharlach, and Limor Shifman, “Beyond neutrality: Conceptualizing platform values,” Communication Theory 32, no. 2 (2022): 201-222. Link
Tommaso Trillò, Rebecca Scharlach, Blake Hallinan, Bumsoo Kim, Saki Mizoroki, Paul Frosh, and Limor Shifman. “What does #freedom look like? Instagram and the visual imagination of values,” Journal of Communication 71, no. 6 (2021): 875–897. Link
Winner, 2021 Top Faculty Paper, Visual Communication Division (ICA)
Blake Hallinan, Bumsoo Kim, Rebecca Scharlach, Tommaso Trillò, Saki Mizoroki, and Limor Shifman, “Mapping the genre imaginary of social media content,” New Media & Society online first (2021): 1-25. Link
Ackermann, Judith, Benjamin Egger, and Rebecca Scharlach (2019). “Programming the Postdigital: Curation of Appropriation Processes in (Collaborative) Creative Coding Spaces.” Journal of Postdigital Science and Education (2), 416-441. Link
In Progress
“Competing Value Priorities” (with CJ Reynolds & Blake Hallinan)
Ongoing collaborations with DigitalValues