Why is it that social media use makes some adolescents feel happy while leaving others feeling blue?
Project AWeSome stands for Adolescents, Well-being & Social Media. It aims to investigate questions about the relationship between adolescents’ social media use and their well-being.
We investigate these questions through experience sampling studies (AWeSome I), via a 100-day diary study (AWeSome II), and a large-scale data donation project (AWeSome III). You can find an overview of all publications here.
Project AWeSome was founded in 2018 by Patti Valkenburg (professor emeritus, University of Amsterdam), Loes Keijsers (professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Ine Beyens (assistant professor, University of Amsterdam). The current team consists of UvA researchers Ine Beyens, Amber van der Wal, Rebecca Godard, Konrad Mikalauskas, and Inga Vondenhof, and Patti Valkenburg and Loes Keijsers serve as advisory members. See the Team page for an overview of current and past members.
The positive connotation of Project AWeSome is meant to emphasize the potential helpful impact that the result of the project may have on parents, teachers, policy makers, and, last but not least, adolescents themselves.
