Digital Media & Human Behaviour Research Lab

04/25/2020

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Inviting CANADIANS (18+ years, social media users, and English speakers) to complete a 20-min online survey about social media use before and during COVID-19. Enter to win one of two $50 Amazon.ca gift certificates.

SURVEY LINK: https://forms.gle/Nq3taapHUMP4cMhF6

08/13/2018

Currently, I am in the process of editing a forthcoming book entitled The Psychology and Dynamics Behind Social Media Interactions to be published by IGI Global, an international publisher of progressive academic research.
Please visit https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3452 for more details regarding this publication and to submit your work.

03/19/2018

This is so true.

06/09/2017

Malinda Desjarlais and Jessica Joseph had a great time presenting at the 2017 CPA national conference in Toronto.

06/06/2017

What do you think...Is the Internet and social media killing civility?
There's a small comment from Malinda Desjarlais in the article regarding how much time people spend on social media on average.

http://www.mtroyal.ca/Summit/socialmedia.htm

A nationwide U.S. study carried out this year titled Civility in America found that 75 per cent of Americans consider the general tone and lack of politeness in the country to be at crisis levels. Social networking sites (43 per cent) and specifically Twitter (35 per cent) were pegged as arenas wher...

06/06/2017

You can meet us and discuss our research at CPA in Toronto.
https://eventmobi.com/cpa2017/speakers/216596/5416488

CPA Convention 2017 Mobile Event App

05/28/2017

Interesting...

People who frequently check Facebook on their smartphone tend to have less gray matter in a reward-related area of the brain, according to new research. "S ...

05/22/2017

What do you think - does the internet change what you remember? Comment and share.

https://youtu.be/InlMjKJBrbE

Many of us spend hours a day on the Internet, and whenever we have a question, it's easy to go to Google to quickly look up information. Is this changing the...

05/14/2017

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. I hope you feel very special and loved for all you do as a mom.

05/09/2017

Our recent journal article has hit the High-Impact Articles list for Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

Article: Socially Interactive and Passive Technologies Enhance Friendship Quality: An Investigation of the Mediating Roles of Online and Offline Self-Disclosure
By Malinda Desjarlais, Jessica J. Joseph

FREE ACCESS through May 19, 2017 at: http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/cyber.2016.0363

Read and share.