Analyzing Between-Person and Within-Person Associations

Explanations and implied causal mechanisms for digital media use often operate at the individual level. For example, the hypothesis photo sharing with friends increases social connectedness implies that when people share more photos they will feel more connected. A typical test of such a hypothesis might rely on a linear regression with a count measure … Continue reading Analyzing Between-Person and Within-Person Associations

Understanding Digital Media Effects

This post was first published on the Media@LSE blog. Digital media are neither poison nor cure Do digital media’s endless options for communication, information, and entertainment increase happiness? Or do constant availability and screens detract from “real life”? These are important questions, yet digital well-being is often framed simply as a technological challenge and an … Continue reading Understanding Digital Media Effects

Digital Well-Being: An Industry Perspective by Paul Marsden

I had the pleasure of having consultant consumer psychologist Dr. Paul Marsden of digitalwellbeing.org and WPP as a guest lecturer in my course on digital well-being. Paul has a PhD in social psychology and helps brands understand the effects of consumer technology; how consumers think, feel, and behave. He offered an excellent and nuanced overview … Continue reading Digital Well-Being: An Industry Perspective by Paul Marsden

Digital Inequality in the Social Media Use–Well-Being Relationship

This is a summary post of a short article in which we argue for the need to consider digital inequality in research on social media use and well-being. The open access article is published in Social Media + Society. Our literature review didn’t turn up any papers that could empirically show the “full cycle” of … Continue reading Digital Inequality in the Social Media Use–Well-Being Relationship

Digital Well-Being Theory and Research

Update: now in print, Issue 1, Volume 26, pages 172-189 (January 2024) The article Digital Well-Being Theory and Research has been published in New Media & Society. A blog post and Twitter summary thread are available below. The full paper is open access here: https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211056851 Created with https://app.wombo.art/ Abstract Digital well-being concerns individuals’ subjective well-being … Continue reading Digital Well-Being Theory and Research

Research Reports from the World Internet Project – Switzerland 2021: Covid-19 and Digitization Push

95 percent of the Swiss population use the internet in 2021. Among those under 70, it is almost 100 percent. 86 percent of the total population also use mobile internet in 2021, which is more than four times as many as ten years ago. Internet usage time doubled between 2011 and 2019 to 3.5 hours … Continue reading Research Reports from the World Internet Project – Switzerland 2021: Covid-19 and Digitization Push

Making Sense of Algorithmic Profiling

This is a summary post of an article published open access in Information, Communication & Society. What reactions and rationales do Facebook users have when confronted with their algorithmically generated profiles? We surveyed 292 US-based users and led them to their "Your Interests" and "Your Categories" sections on their Facebook profiles followed by open-text questions … Continue reading Making Sense of Algorithmic Profiling

What’s in a Library?

After not using a reference manager at first (2014–2016) and later being very frustrated with Mendeley after a couple of years, I started using Zotero in 2018. I am extremely happy with the software and its features – it just works very well for everything I do. The browser plugin to import the full citation … Continue reading What’s in a Library?

Journal Metrics

Update: https://twitter.com/MoritzBuchi/status/1419702949878587398 The journal impact factor is defined as all citations made in the past year from scholarly publications (journals, proceedings, and books) to a journal's publications from the two years prior divided by the total number of publications (articles and reviews, i.e., citable items) published in the journal in those two prior years. So … Continue reading Journal Metrics