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 […]
Written by: Meisi Li Through an interdisciplinary research approach and collaboration with multiple critical stakeholders, the Social Media and Adolescent Research Team (SMAHRT) is dedicated to evaluating the benefits and risks of adolescent social media use. “SMAHRT was awarded its first R01 grant, Using Media to Understand Mechanisms of Behavior Change, in 2011,” said Dr. […]