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New members joining Team AWeSoMe! 🎉

We’re excited to announce three new team members as part of Project AWeSoMe, who joined the team on   1st of September 2025.

The new members are:

  • Rebecca Godard Postdoctoral Researcher, with a background in psychology and social media use.
  • Konrad Mikalauskas Junior Researcher, specializing in psychology and computational techniques.
  • Inga VondenhofJunior Researcher, with experience in adolescent's digital literacy and entertainment communication.

Over the coming months, the team will work on a broad range of topics, including hashtag topic modeling of TikTok videos watched by adolescents, large-scale automated video content analyses, and investigating adolescents' TikTok watching behavior.

We’re thrilled to have them on board and look forward to sharing updates as their work gets underway.

Recent Publications & Project Updates

March 02, 2026

Publication Alert: How Does Social Media Make Adolescents Lonely?

How does using social media relate to feeling lonely, and why do some adolescents seem to be more affected than others? A new study by Rebecca Godard, Amber van der Wal, and Ine Beyens sheds light on these questions using intensive, real‑time data from…
February 09, 2026

Team AWeSoMe at ETMAAL 2026!

On the 5th and 6th February 2026, Team AWeSoMe attended the ETMAAL 2026 conference, hosted by the university of Wageningen. Etmaal is the annual meeting where communication researchers from Dutch and Flemish universities come together to share their…
December 09, 2025

Improving Participation In Data Donation Studies

A new article by Yucan Xiong, Amber van der Wal, and Ine Beyens in Social Science Computer Review sheds fresh light on what drives and discourages participation in data donation research. Their systematic review brings together the existing evidence on…

This project is funded
by a NWO Spinoza Prize awarded to Patti Valkenburg

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