Nathan A Silver

Biographic Data

ID136927
NAMENathan A Silver
GIVEN NAMESNathan A
FAMILY NAMESilver
SIGNATURESILVER N A
AFFILIATIONSThe Ohio State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Cooling the Conversation

    Open AccessCharlotte McCormick, Nathan A Silver et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2026

    INTRODUCTION: TikTok promotes methods that circumvent commerce laws and advances disinformation about tobacco policies. Currently, flavor-related policies are contentious tobacco control issues. This paper examines flavor bans content on TikTok. METHODS: = 1,139) and metadata posted between September 2018 and September 2023 were scraped using a TikTok application programming interface (API) and popular hashtags related to flavor ban content (i.e.…

  • When tobacco is headline news

    George D Pearson, George D H Pearson et al.ARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2026

    While social media allow practitioners to talk directly to audiences, their unstructured nature often advantages opposition actors not tied to bureaucratic structures. Simultaneously, traditional methods of information dissemination via the mass media continue to exist. Using a large dataset of tweets (N = 62.400) collected during a breaking news public health event (the JUUL Marketing Denial Order), this paper examines the discursive power (Jung…

  • Beyond the margin of error

    George D Pearson, George D H Pearson et al.ARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2025

    The availability of an accurate API is an essential tool for research examining the content and dissemination of messages on large media platforms in the twenty-first century. TikTok launched their research API as part of a commitment to data transparency and a goal of protecting youth and vulnerable populations from harmful content. A systematic audit of TikTok’s API for researchers was performed comparing the API versus information displayed on…

  • Twitter (X) and the Commercial Determinants of Health

    Open AccessNathan A Silver, Nathaniel A Silver et al.ARTICLESocial Media + Society2025References: 76

    Tobacco content on Twitter (X) generally opposes regulation. Although a near real-time data source of the public's response to prominent events heightens the allure of extrapolating public sentiment from Twitter content, tobacco policy sentiment on the platform may be more indicative of industry-affiliated top users. We examined 2 years of tobacco policy discussion on Twitter (X) at the user level ( N = 3,159,807 posts) from September 2019 to Jul…

  • Examining influencer compliance with advertising regulations in branded vaping content on Instagram

    Open AccessNathan A Silver, Nathaniel A Silver et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: Youth and young adults are exposed to vaping advertisements on social media sites, despite regulations and guidelines intended to reduce the prevalence of such content on these platforms. This research uses replicable criteria to identify vaping influencers who have worked with vaping brands to promote vaping products on Instagram and documents the extent to which posts by these users comply with existing advertising regulations. Meth…

  • Industry response to strengthened regulations

    Open AccessGanna Kostygina, Hy Tran et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2022

    Social media surveillance can enhance our understanding of public health needs and policy compliance, as well as inform strategies to prevent policy evasion. Examining evolving industry tactics to promote flavoured products in response to regulatory changes can help authorities and practitioners assess policy effectiveness and inform future design and implementation approaches

  • Analysis of e-cigarette warning letters issued by the Food and Drug Administration in 2020 and 2021

    Barbara Schillo, Adrian Bertrand et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2022

    Warning letters targeted small online retailers rather than large e-cigarette brands or products most used by youth: pod mods and disposables. The focus of these enforcement actions comprises a small share of the market and the impact on use was likely minimal. With PMTA decisions pending for the largest brands of e-cigarettes, the FDA should use its enforcement powers to target manufacturers, distributors and sellers of the tobacco products that…

  • Mediated Wisdom of Experience Revisited

    Michael D Slater, M B Oliver et al.ARTICLEHuman Communication Research2018Cited by: 6References: 34

    This experiment, using excerpts from three Hollywood films, indicates that eudaimonic (meaningful) narratives increase willingness to accept delayed rewards (i.e., reduce delay discounting) and acceptance of death, mediated by the effect of eudaimonic narratives on perceived closeness to future self. Our findings provide support for the argument, and its derivation from socio-emotional selectivity theory, that the vicarious experience of life's t…