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.
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…
