Written by: Garrett Waterman A recently published article, “In the Mood for Music: Listening to Music and Other Smartphone Uses Improve Adolescent Mood” has shown that certain smartphone activities can work to regulate negative moods and sustain positive moods. The ever increasing prevalence of smartphone use among adolescent populations within the past ten years, paired […]
I still clearly remember the excitement I felt when I saw the communications intern position at SMAHRT on my school’s job listings a year ago in the spring. At the time, I had been working as a research assistant for Computational Approaches and Message Effects Research (CAMER) and had been content analyzing tweets about the […]
By: Isa Garlough-Shah Every summer, SMAHRT directs teens through a research project in the 6 week program Summer Research Scholars. In this virtual setting, teens get the chance not just to learn about research, but actually get to conduct their own project. They can analyze any subject as it relates to adolescents and social media; […]