Project AWeSome is a multimethod project that started off in 2018 to investigate the psychosocial consequences of adolescents’ social media use. The project consists of several subprojects, including interviews and focus groups among 30 adolescents, a national representative survey among 1,000 adolescents, and a pilot experience sampling method (ESM) study among 63 students.
The flagship subproject of Project AWeSome is a longitudinal cohort study that ran from November 2019 to June 2020. During this period, a cohort of 388 middle adolescents were intensively investigated with different research methods, including online surveys, ESM surveys, digital trace data collection, and Instagram archive downloads.
