Projects

Social Media TestDrive: Social Media for Education

Social Media TestDrive: Social Media for Education

Social Media TestDrive is an interactive educational program developed by the SML, in partnership with Common Sense Education, that offers a number of modules about key digital citizenship topics, such as managing privacy settings, smart self-presentation, upstanding...

Deterring Objectionable Behavior in Social Media

Deterring Objectionable Behavior in Social Media

This project is an interdisciplinary collaboration that grew out of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences project co-led by Prof. Natalie Bazarova and Prof. Drew Margolin. This project brings together faculty members from Communication, Information Science, and...

Asylum Seekers and Digital Health Tools

Asylum Seekers and Digital Health Tools

Asylum seekers are a vulnerable population that faces many challenges, such as access to resources and navigating information precarity.  While there are many available resources, such as non-profit communities, public healthcare benefits, programs, and others, their...

Intervening to Stop Cyberbullying

Intervening to Stop Cyberbullying

To date, we have completed a series of studies investigating cyberbullying and bystander interventions. The goal of this research is to investigate bystander interventions online, and the ways in which interventions can be encouraged in cyberbullying situations.  One...

Youth Tech Safety

Youth Tech Safety

While technology use has created opportunities for learning and social connection, it can also be used as a tool of abuse in teenagers interpersonal relationships. Our research focuses on youth digital safety, privacy, and security. We investigate how different...

Prosocial Behaviors in the Digital Age

Prosocial Behaviors in the Digital Age

The capacity of digital technologies to facilitate both anti-social and prosocial behaviors has become a pressing challenge with significant science and policy implications. How do we stem the tide of negative interactions while actively promoting positive...

Critical Social Media Literacy

Critical Social Media Literacy

Informed by the critical literacy framework (Freire, 1970; Lewison et al., 2008), this systematic literature review study investigates how the competences necessary to empower social media users map to an integrated conceptualization of social media that accounts for...

Empowering Parents in Tweens’ Social Media Privacy Education

Empowering Parents in Tweens’ Social Media Privacy Education

Parents and caretakers play integral roles in tweens’ lives, especially in teaching tweens how to responsibly and safely navigate an increasingly digitally integrated world. As social media usage grows in younger age groups, there is an imminent need to support youth...

Distress and Disclosure on Social Media

Distress and Disclosure on Social Media

After experiencing negative life events or emotions, individuals often feel they need to disclose their experiences and feelings to others. Although people may not routinely use social networking sites (SNSs) to disclose distressing personal information due to...