
Sabrina Norwood
@sabrina_norwood
Postdoc at Oxford Internet Institute. Social media and screen time behavior. Meta-science. Sometimes measurement. Always behaviorism
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01-07-2018 22:11:14
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Good timing for evidence on the importance of social media for democracy: now published in Nature Human Behaviour is our systematic review that aims to summarize the evidence to inform a more constructive debate and rethink the status quo: nature.com/articles/s4156…

This is brilliant news, well done Peter Kyle. We need a sensible, considered approach to child online safety, and this new partnership is an important step: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Insta users who self-described as "addicted" only fit actual addiction criteria 2.4% of time, but new work from Ian Axel Anderson, PhD finds that the self-label still reduced their well-being. Frames of social media use matter


I really love this work that Matthew B. Jané and team are putting in on this. For whatever it’s worth, here is a thread comprising my wishlist for this project… 🧵








In a remarkable new study, Simine Vizier (simine vazire), Sarah Schiavone (Sarah Schiavone), and Mijke Rhemtulla (Mijke Rhemtulla) surveyed 724 personality/social psychology researchers to investigate what they think of their own field. First, the good news: 🧵

Our study on the TikTok algorithm and eating disorders is finally published (big thx 2 Emily Harris). We scraped the metadata for ~1 million TikTok videos delivered to users w/ eating disorders versus users w/out eating disorders (i.e. healthy controls) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…




This #SaferInternetDay, we asked Oxford Internet Institute experts what they believe is "too good to be true" about life online. Postdoc researcher Sabrina Norwood advocates for evaluating when screen time may feel overwhelming and taking breaks to preserve a healthy relationship with screens.

6 year update: I am married to someone who holds an EU passport. Never give up on your dreams kids. Ian Hussey