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Georgia Turner
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But rather than a homogeneous group, these 'addicted' adolescents comprise three distinct profiles: a 'social' profile (74%), a 'risk behaviour' profile (10%) and a 'low wellbeing' profile (16%).
Understanding this diversity may help inform more targeted interventions.
Honoured to share our new paper in @nature.com today. Across 12 countries in eastern and southern Africa and Southeast Asia, 1 in 6 internet-using children had experienced technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse. A thread 🧵
Georgia Turner
New preprint! Led by the talented @bcdavidson.bsky.social 👇
Poster and symposium topics may include:
🔹 Effects of technology on users and society
🔹 Emerging methods
🔹 Interventions and novel uses
🔹 Ethics, theory, meta-science and policy implications
🚨New preprint🚨
Available here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Do adolescents who report feeling addicted to social media share a single behavioural-emotional profile?
We analysed data from >7,000 UK adolescents and found, strikingly, that **47%** feel addicted to social media.
Huge thanks to the excellent team who worked on this study! @dalmaijer.bsky.social, @duncanastle.bsky.social & my PhD supervisor @orbenamy.bsky.social
🚨 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🚨
1/ We invite proposals for posters and symposia for the New Directions in Social Media Research conference at St John’s College, University of Cambridge (7–8 Dec 2026).
We especially welcome future-facing research on how the social world is changing in the digital age.
Hosted by the @dmh-group.bsky.social, @promiseproject.bsky.social at @stjohnscollege.bsky.social
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Submission deadline is Sunday 2 August 2026!
Find out more about the conference, and submit your proposals for posters and symposia here:
sites.google.com/view/social-...
Georgia Turner
Looking forward to presenting our research on digital technology use and wellbeing at this session today, free to attend if you're in Cambridge! www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/lonel...
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