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Why do politicians use the media when making laws? A study On the functional use of mass media during legislative processes University of Antwerp
Explaining adolescents' media use and differential susceptibility to the association between media use and risk behavior: a reinforcement sensitivity perspective. KU Leuven
In general consensus exists regarding the hypothesis that different people select different types of media and that the exposure to different media contents influences different people in different ways. Therefore, many studies have been conducted throughout the years that looked into the link between personality and media use on the one hand and the role of personality in explaining media effects on the other hand. Most of these studies ...
Time to abandon Internet Addiction? Predicting problematic internet, game, and social media use from psychosocial well-being and application use Ghent University
Navigating the Social Media Seas: Understanding the Complex Relationship between Social Media Use and Adolescent Well-being Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Despite the sharp rise of studies on social media, there is still little consensus concerning the impact of social media use on adolescents’ well-being. We argue that this is due to the narrow focus on quantitative aspects of social media (e.g. frequency of use) and the use of very specific indicators of well-being. This research contributes to the literature by (1) looking at both quantitative indicators of social media use (frequency of ...
Social media guidelines in the workplace : stimulating or restricting employee social media use? Ghent University
The commercialization of social media stars : a literature review and conceptual framework on the strategic use of social media influencers Ghent University
Matching social media posts with motivations for social media use University of Antwerp
Academics and practitioners often prescribe social media strategists to design campaigns that match individuals’ motivations for social media use, thus optimizing brand engagement. This paper offers an empirical test of the effectiveness of tailoring posts to “match” social media users’ motivations. We study the moderating role of individuals’ uses and gratifications (U&G) of social media on the relationship between branded post appeals and ...
The media psychology of boredom and mobile media use theoretical and methodological innovations University of Antwerp
Boredom is a prevalent and relevant, yet understudied, negative emotion in the field of media psychology. This paper proposes novel theoretical foundations to study boredom as an emotion and its related regulation strategies in the context of mobile media. Due to their pervasive nature, mobile media allow for boredom regulation via passive and (inter)active exposure to a wide variety of media contents. It is still unclear how and through which ...
Why don’t we learn from social media? Studying effects of and mechanisms behind social media news use on general surveillance political knowledge University of Antwerp
Does exposure to news affect what people know about politics? This old question attracted new scholarly interest as the political information environment is changing rapidly. In particular, since citizens have new channels at their disposal, such as Twitter and Facebook, which increasingly complement or even replace traditional channels of information. This study investigates to what extent citizens have knowledge about daily politics and to ...