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Team AWeSome at ICA in Paris

Team AWeSome at ICA in Paris

The ICA conference is held in Paris this year, from May 26th  to May 30th. This annual competitive conference highlights some of the best communication research from around the world. This year finally, we can share our work in public again, because due to the pandemic, the past two years, the presentations remained virtual. 

Below you can find an overview of our presentations: 

  • Self-Reported Measures of Social Media Use Show High Predictive   Validity:   Tim Verbeij; Loes Pouwels; Ine Beyens; Patti Valkenburg 

  • To Connect or Not to Connect? Investigating Differences in Social  Media-Related Distraction Among Adolescents:  Teun Siebers; Ine Beyens; Loes Pouwels; Patti Valkenburg

  • The Associations of Active and Passive Social Media Use With Well-Being and Ill-Being: A Scoping Review:  Patti Valkenburg; Irene van Driel; Ine Beyens

  • Just a Joke? Adolescents’ Preferences for Humor in Media Entertainment and Real-Life Aggression:  Amber van der Wal,  Loes Pouwels, Jessica Taylor Piotrowski, Patti Valkenburg

  • Lessons From Two Studies Using Linkage Analysis to Assess Differential Media Content Preferences:  Amber van der Wal

  • Mobile social media habits and procrastination among adolescents: Investigating between-person, within-person, and person-specific  associations:  Adrian Meier; Ine Beyens; Loes Pouwels; Teun Siebers; Patti Valkenburg

Recent Publications & Project Updates

July 06, 2026

Encouragement of suicide in the feeds of young Dutch people

Fenna van Loenhout from Nu.nl spoke with Project AWeSoMe post-doctoral researcher Rebecca Godrad about harmful content on the TikTok feeds of Dutch adolescents. Preliminary findings suggest that nearly all youth from a community-based sample encounter…
June 15, 2026

Project AWeSoMe wins Open Science Award ⭐

We are very proud that Project AWeSoMe has been awarded an Open Science Community Amsterdam (OSCA) Award in the category “Transparency / Metascience / Preregistration / Reproducibility” 🏆 Since the founding of AWeSoMe in 2018, Open Science principles…
May 19, 2026

Project AWeSoMe article among most-read in Child Development🥇

Project AWeSoMe is proud to share that the article Changing or stable? The effects of adolescents' social media use on psychosocial functioning by Loes Pouwels, Ine Beyens, Loes Keijsers, and Patti Valkenburg has ranked within the top 10% most-viewed…
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…

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

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