First Monday July 2025

Readers:

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First Monday
Volume 30, Number 7 - 7 July 2025

The impact of engagement metrics overwhelms the influence of online disinhi=
bition
by Ruohan Wen and Asako Miura

Present and absent simultaneously: Standing Rock, #NoDAPL, and geolocationa=
l solidarity
by Julianna Kirschner

Mad mermaids vs. beauty standards: Examining the intersection of gender, se=
xuality, race, and dis/ability in online mermaid fan art (2010-2020)
by Martine Mussies

Content analysis of political disinformation spread by Jair Bolsonaro on Tw=
itter/X
by Bruna Bastos and David Nemer

Intergenerational trauma infographics as diagnostic templates: Interrogatin=
g the meme-ification of therapeutic media
by Mallika Khanna

Backstage to frontstage: Digital theater for generation X executives
by Roxana Tutaya and Ruben Guevara

With the July issue, First Monday has published 2,411 papers in 350 issues,=
 written by 3,598 different authors over the past 29 years.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J. Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday=