Social Media - Research

What we do in the shadows: The consumption of mobile messaging by social media apps in the twilight of the social networking era.  Mobile Media & Communication (invited essay), 11(1), 66-73.

Social media use, social displacement, and well-being.  Current Opinion in Psychology, 47, 101339.

Development and initial evaluation of a multidimensional digital stress scale. Psychological Assessment, 33(3), 230-242. 10.1037/pas0000979

Does Facebook-enabled communication influence weak tie relationships over time? A longitudinal investigation into mediated relationship maintenance. Communication Monographs, 88(1) (special issue), 48-70.

Experimentally manipulating social media abstinence: Results of a four-week diary study. Media Psychology, 24(2), 259-275. 10.1080/15213269.2019.1688171

Conceptualizing digital stress in adolescents and young adults: Toward the development of an empirically based model. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 23(1), 15-26.

Where does the time go? An experimental test of what social media displaces and displaced activities’ associations with affective well-being and quality of day. New Media & Society, 21(3), 674-692. doi:10.1177/1461444818804775

Two tests of social displacement through social media use. Information, Communication and Society, 22(10), 1396-1413. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2018.1430162

Ethnic minorities’ social media political use: How ingroup identification, selective exposure, and collective efficacy shape social media political expression. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 24(4), 147-164. doi:10/1093/jcmc/zmz007

When is social media use social interaction? Defining mediated social interaction. New Media & Society. 20(1), 162-179. doi:10.1177/1461444816660782

To tweet or not to tweet: Explaining fan-celebrity interaction on Twitter. Iowa Journal of Communication, 48(1). 55-75.

First comes the social network, then comes marriage? Characteristics of Americans married 2005-2012 who met through social networking sites. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 17, 322-326. doi:10.1089/cyber.2013.0408

Impression management and formation on Facebook: A lens model approach. New Media & Society, 16, 958-982. doi:10.1177/1461444813495166

Nonverbal decoding on Facebook: Applying the IPT-15 and the SSI to personality judgments. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 38, 413-427. doi:10.1007/s10919-014-0195-z

An analysis of humor orientation on Facebook: A lens model approach. Humor, 27, 1-21. doi:10.1515/humor-2013-0053

Self-monitoring, honesty, and cue use on Facebook: The relationship with extraversion and conscientiousness. Computers in Human Behavior, 29, 1556-1564. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2013.01.001

Strategic misrepresentation in online dating: The effects of gender, self-monitoring, and personality traits. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27, 117-135. doi:10.1177/0265407509349633