With an advancement of digital technology, excessive screen time has become a grave
concern. This has pushed researchers and practitioners to focus on digital well-being …

Literature reviews on how social media use affects adolescent mental health have
accumulated at an unprecedented rate of late. Yet, a higher-level integration of the evidence …

A recurring claim in the literature is that active social media use (ASMU) leads to increases
in well-being, whereas passive social media use (PSMU) leads to decreases in well-being …

Does the internet facilitate selective exposure to politically congenial content? To answer
this question, I introduce and validate large‐N behavioral data on Americans' online media …

If popular online platforms systematically expose their users to partisan and unreliable news,
they could potentially contribute to societal issues such as rising political polarization,. This …

A recurring hypothesis in the literature is that “passive” social media use (browsing) leads to
negative effects on well-being. This preregistered study investigated a rival hypothesis …

An optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to
live and collaborate in our digital world. Born since the mid-1990s, members of Generation Z …

In social media effects research, the role of specific social media content is understudied, in
part attributable to the fact that communication science previously lacked methods to access …

The widespread adoption of video-conferencing has not only transformed communication at
scale, but also increased feelings of Zoom fatigue among workers around the world …

With digital communication increasingly shifting to mobile devices, communication research
needs to explore ways to retrieve, process, and analyze digital trace data on people's most …