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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

January 18, 2024

Essay for UNICEF

Dutch adolescents spend about six hours per day on their mobile phones,  of which two and a half hours are spend on social media. What does this their mean for their mental health? 

In an essay written for UNICEF Patti Valkenburg, Amber van der…

June 28, 2023

Project AWeSome in New York Times

The  New York Times  wrote an article on how everyone says social media is bad for adolescents, but so far  there is little research proving that social media directly causes harmful outcomes. Project AWeSome's research on adolescents'social media use is…

June 06, 2023

Social media good for friendships, bad for self-concept

Members of Project AWeSome (Adolescents, Well-being, and Social media) interviewed 480 adolescents aged 14 to 17 about the pros and cons of social media, relying on a survey study and qualitative interviews. For most adolescents, the pros of social media…

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

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