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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We live in an age of unprecedented digital connection – yet loneliness is rising across all stages of life. What’s driving this paradox? And what does it mean for our health, our relationships and
🚨 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.
🚨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.
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
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 🧵