Team AWeSome I (2018-2021)—Ine Beyens, Loes Keijsers, Loes Pouwels, Irene van Driel, and Patti Valkenburg—received the Innovation Award for Method from ICA’s Mass Comm Division. The award was granted for their introduction of Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling (DSEM) to the media effects field. DSEM allows researchers to assess the effect of media for each single person. It combines the strengths of multi-level and structural equation modelling with those of N=1 time series. The award was granted at ICA’s annual conference on May 27.
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…
