Plussen en minnen van social media

📢 Project AWeSoMe celebrates a new publication! 📢 Teenagers spend a lot of time communicating with friends online, but how do those interactions actually affect their wellbeing? In a preregistered 100-day diary study with 479 adolescents, Loes Janssen…

Youths are increasingly turning to TikTok for mental health information, making the platform an important space where young people encounter portrayals of mental illness. Through a content analysis of 210 TikTok videos, the study examined how…

How does using social media relate to feeling lonely, and why do some adolescents seem to be more affected than others? A new study by Rebecca Godard, Amber van der Wal, and Ine Beyens sheds light on these questions using intensive, real‑time data from…

On the 5th and 6th February 2026, Team AWeSoMe attended the ETMAAL 2026 conference, hosted by the university of Wageningen. Etmaal is the annual meeting where communication researchers from Dutch and Flemish universities come together to share their…

A new large-scale diary study was published by Amber van der Wal, Ine Beyens, Loes Janssen and Patti Valkenburg: Diverse platforms, diverse effects: Evidence from a 100-day study on social media and adolescent mental health. The study sheds light on how…