ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Social Media: Measuring Effects and Mitigating Downsides
Social media was initially expected to generate widespread improvements in individual well-being and to have positive externalities in the political domain. Such optimistic expectations soon gave way to a host of concerns about possible negative effects of social media. At the societal level, many started worrying that social media might exacerbate political polarization and propagate misinformation. At the level of individual users, many became concerned that social media might have detrimental effects on mental health, especially among the youth. This research proposal has two major goals: first, to fill critical gaps in our knowledge of the causal effects of social media on users and…
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