Author: SweeneyLi
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Video Games for Good: What Is It Like in Somebody Else’s Shoes?
Sweeney Li Mar 2025 What Is It Like in Somebody Else’s Shoes? From traditional to innovative entertainment, the answer to that question has always been perspective-taking—imagining yourself in other people’s stories. Novels do it through exciting and logical storytelling, movies add stunning and realistic visuals, but technology has allowed us to take it a step…
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Bias What, Who?
Emily Gravesteijn Feb 2025 In Europe, Public Service Media (PSM) are increasingly getting accused of being biased. In democratic societies, Public Service Media function as impartial news outlets and uniquely serve to create a shared public space by delivering factual news and providing balanced representation of diverse perspectives on societal issues. While the increasing presence of bias accusations…
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“Inside your Mind”: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Persuasive Communication and Information Sharing
Xinyao Zhang Jan 2025 Meet Ella, a 17-year-old high school student. On a Sunday morning, Ella encounters a Facebook post about an upcoming local climate rally. Ella pauses, she feels a bit hesitant whether or not to share this information on her page. What makes her do so and what stops her? What exactly is…
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Is Seeing Still Believing? Exploring the Impact of AR Filters on Adolescents’ Trust
Weiqi Tian Sep 2024 Have you ever imagined turning back the clock to your teenage years with just a click? Recent advancements in social media augmented reality (AR) filters, like TikTok’s ‘Teenager Look,’ are making this almost possible. These AI-powered filters can alter users’ appearances in hyper-realistic ways. But in a world where manipulated content…
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Do Recommender Systems Mobilize People for Collective Actions?
Jin Wan Jul 2024 Tools and platforms that collective actions such as protests and parades rely on to mobilize, organize, and communicate with people have evolved tremendously due to technological advancement. One important change is the wide application of social media, which heavily incorporates algorithms to rank, filter, and disseminate content. This set of algorithms…
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Understanding feelings after sexting and sexual exposure
Michaela Lebedíková Jun 2024 During the past four years, I have focused on examining the different ways in which exposure to sexually explicit materials (i.e., pictures, photos, or videos depicting nudity or sex) and sexting (i.e., sending such materials) relate to adolescents’ well-being. An area that especially caught my attention were the subsequent feelings after…
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New editors! Welcome Anna & Sweeney
Emily & Spela May 2024 After having had so much fun with being editors of this blog, we – Emily & Spela – think it is time to hand over the task to two fresh PhD candidates. Therefore, we would like to introduce to you: Anna & Sweeney! Besides thanking them for taking over the…
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Political ads on social media: Do they know it’s not that sophisticated at all?
Mads Fuglsang Hove May 2024 When I started my PhD, something that pulled me in was the idea that modern campaign technology decides elections. Obama’s famous field operations and Facebook campaign in 2008, the technology behind Cambridge Analytica, and the cinematics of the use of data in the Brexit Vote Leave campaign. However, getting into…
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Lost in Translation: The Lingering Challenge of Unresolved Language Barriers in Today’s Interconnected World
Brittany Chan Feb 2024 Picture this: You are an 11-year-old second-generation immigrant from Vietnam, born and raised here in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Your mum has been feeling very sick and needs to visit the general practitioner to get a referral. She doesn’t speak Dutch though, and neither does your dad. What would you do? …
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Decoding Authenticity: Does Blockchain Help Increase Trust in Online Product-Related Information?
Dasha Antsipava Jan 2024 Blockchain is often hailed by technological evangelists as a revolutionary technology that will usher in a new Internet era termed Web3. At its core, blockchain is a technology used for securely recording and verifying information. Traditionally, it has been used for storing records about cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (aka NFTs) –…
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