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New members joining Team AWeSoMe! ๐ŸŽ‰

Weโ€™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 โ€“ Postdoctoral Researcher, with a background in psychology and social media use.
  • Konrad Mikalauskas โ€“ Junior Researcher, specializing in psychology and computational techniques.
  • Inga Vondenhof โ€“ Junior 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.

Weโ€™re thrilled to have them on board and look forward to sharing updates as their work gets underway.

Recent Publications & Project Updates

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…
September 15, 2025

New members joining Team AWeSoMe! ๐ŸŽ‰

Weโ€™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 โ€“ Postdoctoral Researcher, with a background in psychology and social media use. Konrad…
November 21, 2024

It is time to ensure research access to platform data

Our commentary, published today in Nature Human Behaviour, addresses a critical challenge for academic research: the lack of reliable access to data from online platforms such as social media, streaming services, and search engines. Legal frameworks,…

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

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