A Orben - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2020 - Springer
Materials and Methods Systematic reviews, meta-analyses and key studies are reviewed to provide insights into the state of current research linking digital technology and social media …
A Meier, L Reinecke - Communication Research, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Computer-mediated communication (CMC), and specifically social media, may affect the mental health (MH) and well-being of its users, for better or worse. Research on this topic …
The rise of social media has provoked both optimism about potential societal benefits and concern about harms such as addiction, depression, and political polarization. In a …
D Liu, RF Baumeister, C Yang, B Hu - Journal of Computer-Mediated …, 2019 - academia.edu
The puzzle of whether digital media are improving or harming psychological well-being has been plaguing researchers and the public for decades. Derived from media richness theory …
Investigators have long recognized that adolescents' peer experiences provide a crucial context for the acquisition of developmental competencies, as well as potential risks for a …
For social media users, profile updating and receiving Likes may feel like a reward, and elicit positive emotions, reinforcing use of the platform. Could this mechanism have …
In the early days of the Internet, both conventional wisdom and scholarship deemed online communication a threat to well-being. Later research has complicated this picture, offering …
While survey research has been at the heart of social science for decades and social scientific research with digital trace data has been growing rapidly in the last few years, until …
This review delineates core components of the social media ecosystem, specifying how online platforms complicate established social psychological effects. We assess four pairs of …