Adolescents with poor home Internet & youth who parents actively control their media use have substantially lower self-esteem than even the heaviest "excessive" users of social media, video games, etc. New paper w/ inyoung shin journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Quello Center MSU ComArtSci

Seeking students for fully-funded positions, Info & Media PhD program MSU ComArtSci to work w/ me & Johannes M. Bauer. Pursuing research Quello Center on taken for granted assumptions about new media & digital inequality. Due Dec 1 for 2023-24 start. For more info quello.msu.edu/phd/

Join us via Zoom tomorrow at 11 AM EST as Amy S. Bruckman presents, "Should you believe Wikipedia? Social epistemology, virtue epistemology, & the practice of internet research." Register here: tinyurl.com/yc7ykmsm Amy @[email protected] Bruckman Johannes M. Bauer Keith N Hampton #internetresearch

Interesting paper that ties together the research on network size and diversity w/ FOMO and social media fatigue by baohuazhou and Yu Tian (Newhouse School) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Join us on October 11 for the annual Hotelling Lecture with guest speaker Keith N. Hampton to address the digital divide among Michigan's rural youth. For more, visit 👉 ow.ly/qkaM50KZV8n #WeAreLTU

I appreciate ASA Sociology asking me to write this article for #ASAFootnotes. I hope others find it useful. ASA Medical Sociology CITAMS #AcademicTwitter Clemson University #technology #Health Is Technology Use Leading to the Demise of Our Mental Health and Well-Being? asanet.org/technology-use…

It's PhD application season and we (me, Keith N Hampton, Johannes M. Bauer) are seeking applicants who are interested in being research assistants with the Quello Center on projects related to information policy, Internet regulation, digital equity, & innovation (quello.msu.edu/joinus/). 1/3

A good summary of my recent work with inyoung shin looking at the small effect of screen time on teen self-esteem relative to "disconnection" and traditional inequalities. Quello Center Media & Information MSU ComArtSci journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Being disconnected can hurt teen self-esteem more than heavy internet use bit.ly/3UCuqZu

Video games can help teenagers feel less isolated by helping them socialize and build community. Read about the positive effects of video gaming and MSU Professor Keith Hampton Keith N Hampton’s study: lifestyle.livemint.com/health/wellnes…

Postdoc opportunity at MSU ComArtSci open to scholars doing research on digital media (including sociologists like me). Two, 1-2 year positions for recent PhDs advancing research related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. More info: bit.ly/CASDEIpostdoc

Interesting paper by Rize Jing et al: digital inequality predicts depressive symptoms among older (especially rural) adults in China sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Concerns over the future of sociology of media & communication, and a field of digital media studies "Disciplinary brakes on the sociology of digital media: the incongruity of communication and the sociological imagination" #socialmedia tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

If you haven't listened to this, you should. Great reporting by NPR.

Nice! "Detectable differences or functional equivalents?" validity of structural vs subjective measures of network diversity in political comm. I had not positive feedback when introducing position generators to this area Matt Barnidge @MikeXenos Cynthia Peacock tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Interesting article on "Kinwork revisited: The gendered work of keeping up with family through communication technology" (some older media are abandoned as gender norms change) by Lina Eklund at Uppsala University journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

pre-post COVID-19 report on Broadband and Student Performance Gaps After the COVID-19 Pandemic. Change in rural Michigan digital inequality, student achievement, and adolescent well-being msutoday.msu.edu/news/2023/msu-… Quello Center Gabriel Hales Johannes M. Bauer

Hiring Assoc/Full Prof in computational methods or/and quantitative social science. Consider joining us! #DataScience #AI #networksci #geospatial #MachineLearning #infosci #sociology MSU ComArtSci Media & Information careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/5…

Rural students’ access to Wi-Fi is in jeopardy as pandemic-era resources recede, with major costs to academic achievement and educational outcomes theconversation.com/rural-students…