Kayo Mimizuka, Megan A Brown, Kai-Cheng Yang, Josephine Lukito: Post-Post-API Age: Studying Digital Platforms in Scant Data Access Times https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.09877 https://arxiv.org/html/2505.09877

*New publication from Digital Journalism* Thrilled to have worked on this piece with @ingakris.bsky.social, Samuel C. Woolley, and Katlyn Glover: “'I Don’t Even Watch News (Voluntarily) on WeChat” – Socially-Compelled Exposure to Misinformation Among U.S. Diaspora Communities'" shorturl.at/hriRD

The age of mass data access is gone with the sunset of major social media APIs. DSA-mandated data access programs sparked optimism, but do they provide adequate data access? We conducted a survey (180) + interview (19) study & the preprint is available on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877

[New pub from New Media & Society] Excited to share my recent paper here as I just joined this platform! "On the Fly: How Japanese Social Media 'Watchers' Improvise to Counter Misinformation," co-authored w/ Ahmer Arif & @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

On the fly: How Japanese social media “watchers” improvise to counter problematic information - Kayo Mimizuka, André K Rodarte, Ahmer Arif, 2024

Recent studies have explored how the purveyors of problematic information can mobilize online crowds by tapping into positive feelings like amusement, belonging...

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So thrilled to have worked on this important piece with @yang3kc.bsky.social @m-dot-brown.bsky.social and Kayo Mimizuka. Data access for independent researchers is at such a critical juncture

Kevin Yang@yang3kc.bsky.social · last yr.

[New WP] With the closure of major social media APIs and the new data access mandates under DSA, we enter what we call the "post-post-API" era. But have researchers obtained the data they need? Our recent survey (180) + interview (19) study suggests a stark reality. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877 1/3

[New WP] With the closure of major social media APIs and the new data access mandates under DSA, we enter what we call the "post-post-API" era. But have researchers obtained the data they need? Our recent survey (180) + interview (19) study suggests a stark reality. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877 1/3