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Gaming: Uses & Effects
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Cyberbullying, Cyberharassment
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Cybercrimes
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Therapeutical Use of Communication & Media
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Media Psychology, Communication Psychology
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Digital & Social Media Use: Children
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Persuasive Communication
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Children & Digital Media
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
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Countering Misinformation & Rumours
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Visual Anthropology
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Darknet
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Digital Ethics, AI Ethics, Social Media Ethics, Data & Information Ethics
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Internet and Society / Social Change
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Internet / Social Media Law & Regulation
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Chatbots
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Online Media & Internet Economics
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Sexual Abuse: Digital Media
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Facebook
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Filter Bubbles & Echo Chambers
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TikTok
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Artificial Intelligence
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AI Criticism
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Emotions in AI, Affective Computing
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Generative AI, including ChatGPT et al.
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ICTs and Politics
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ICT Industries & Markets
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Information Society
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Virtual Reality
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Media Literacy: Gaming
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Defamation: Effects on Victims
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Image Ethics, Ethics in Photojournalism
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Counselling
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Indigenous Youth
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Digital Literacy: Youth
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Media Literacy: Youth
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Well-Being Online
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Design Thinking
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Polarization, Political Polarization
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Political Communication
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Political Parties: Communication Strategies
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Radicalisation: Influence of Media
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Media Effects
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Parasocial Interaction
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Social Integration: Role of Media
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Mobile Phone Apps
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
Cambridge (MA): MIT Media Lab (2025), 206 pp.
Mitigating loneliness and remediating solitude: Pandemic narratives from the Global South
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 19 pp.
"Set in the Global South context of India, this article examines how users of digital media used their platforms and devices to mitigate loneliness and create moments of solitude during the Covid-19 pandemic. Historically, experiencing loneliness has been understood as debilitating but solitude has
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The Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance
London; New York: Routledge (2025), xxvii, 765 pp.
"Covering a wide range of different online platforms, including social media sites and chatrooms, this volume is a comprehensive exploration of the current state of sociological and criminological scholarship focused on online deviance. Understanding deviance broadly, the handbook acknowledges both
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Mediensucht nach der Pandemie
DAK-Gesundheit (2024), 39 pp.
The impact of digital technologies on well-being: Main insights from the literature
OECD (2024), 60 pp.
"Digital technologies are reshaping our lives, with significant impacts on personal and societal well-being. As these technologies are increasingly integrated into everyday life, it is crucial to raise awareness on their positive and negative impacts which are reviewed in this paper. While innovatio
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Communicating Through Chaos in the Webtoon Parasocial Intimacy Chamber
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2919-2947
"This study investigates some of the communicative practices displayed by readers of vertically scrolling digital comics known as webtoons. A big-data emotion detection technique is used to identify, categorize, and analyze the contents of more than 14 million comments posted during the first year o
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Gefühle der Zukunft: Wie wir mit emotionaler KI unser Leben verändern
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 271 pp.
"Längst ist Künstliche Intelligenz nicht mehr auf kognitive Zwecke begrenzt: Sie wertet, etwa zur Kriminalitätsprävention oder gezielten Kundenansprache, menschliche Mimik aus und suggeriert in Spielen oder Lernprogrammen Emotionen und Stimmungen. Erscheinen bereits solche auf Empfindungen ziele
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The Teenage Guide to Digital Wellbeing: Find the Balance to Live Your Best Live
Glasgow: Collins (2024), 189 pp.
"Digital wellbeing is all about finding the balance between the digital world and the real world – and making sure we use smartphones and other digital devices in a healthy way, while living fulfilling lives beyond the screen. This guide helps tweens and teens do exactly that, inspiring them to se
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Indigenous youth, health, wellness, and social media: A scoping review
Institut National de Santé Publique Québec (2023), v, 55 pp.
"Research into the use of social media by Indigenous youth and their health and wellness is an emerging field. Of the twenty-six publications selected, over three quarters were published in 2015 or later. Almost half the studies in the corpus—eleven in all—took place in Canada. They were mainly
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Umgang mit digitalen Medien und ihren Auswirkungen auf die psychische Gesundheit im schulischen Kontext
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2022), 23 pp.
Social media use and well-being: What we know and what we need to know
Science Direct, issue 45 : 101294 (2022), 8 pp.
"Research into the impact of social media use (SMU) on wellbeing (e.g., happiness) and ill-being (e.g., depression) has exploded over the past few years. From 2019 to August 2021, 27 reviews have been published: nine meta-analyses, nine systematic reviews, and nine narrative reviews, which together
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Mediennutzung in der Corona-Pandemie
Media Perspektiven, issue 2 (2022), pp. 81-88
"Während der Corona-Pandemie und der damit verbundenen Einschränkungen des öffentlichen Lebens hat sich der Medienkonsum in allen Bereichen signifikant erhöht. Um auf dem Laufenden und mit anderen in Kontakt zu bleiben, aber auch um sich zu unterhalten und abzulenken, nutzten (und nutzen) die Me
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Echo Chambers, Filter Bubbles, and Polarisation: A Literature Review
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 42 pp.
"This literature review examines, specifically, social science work presenting evidence concerning the existence, causes, and effect of online echo chambers and consider what related research can tell about scientific discussions online and how they might shape public understanding of science and th
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Digitale Achtsamkeit: Handreichung für Lehrkräfte
Klett Mint;Barmer (2022), 20 pp.
"In dieser fächerübergreifenden Unterrichtseinheit werden die Schülerinnen und Schüler für das Thema digitale Achtsamkeit sensibilisiert. Sie sollen erkennen, dass es wichtig ist, selbstbestimmt und vernünftig über die Verwendung digitaler Medien zu entscheiden. Oft lassen wir uns von Emotion
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Du gehörst uns! Die psychologischen Strategien von Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat & Co - und wie wir uns vor der großen Manipulation schützen
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2022), 414 pp.
"Welche menschlichen Eigenschaften machen sich die Entwickler von Facebook oder Tiktok, Snapchat, Twitter oder Instagram zunutze, damit wir uns an sie binden, auf ihren Seiten verweilen, unsere Timeline pflegen, Beiträge liken, retweeten oder Kommentare posten? Welche kommerziell oder manipulativ n
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The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation
London; New York: Routledge (2021), x, 239 pp.
"In a general climate where facts and misinformation blur, and are intentionally blurred, this book asks what determines whether people accept and share (mis)information, and what can be done to counter misinformation? All three of these aspects need to be understood in the context of online social
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On the Psychology of TikTok Use: A First Glimpse from Empirical Findings
Frontiers in Public Health, volume 9, issue 641673 (2021), 6 pp.
"TikTok (in Chinese: DouYin; formerly known as musical.ly) currently represents one of the most successful Chinese social media applications in the world. Since its founding in September 2016, TikTok has seen widespread distribution, in particular, attracting young users to engage in viewing, creati
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The rise of digital wellbeing: A qualitative content analysis of choice architectures within digital wellbeing applications
University of Boras, Bachelor Thesis (2021), 43 pp.
"This study examines choice architectures within contemporary digital wellbeing applications to better understand their design and structure. Specifically, it investigates how design influences decision-making processes and self-regulatory systems. Empirical data was gathered from six digital wellbe
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