Professor Kristina Lerman is a Research Professor in Computer Science and Principal Scientist at University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute. Professor Lerman has been publishing in peer-reviewed journals for over 30 years, and her current work focuses on the impacts of social media on mental health.

Chapters

0:00 Show Intro

2:15 The social media-mental health crisis

6:50 Evidence for the crisis

12:10 Negative social comparisons

16:00 How social media distorts reality

21:00 Scrolling vs. creating on social media

23:50 How algorithms drive extreme behaviours

32:15 Psychological contagion

40:30 Long-term effects on mental health

45:40 Parenting with social media

49:15 Healthy social media use

53:35 Who is social media better or worse for?

56:30 AI and the future

Further resources mentioned in this episode

‘Friendship paradox biases perceptions in directed networks’ by Alipourfard et. al. (2020)

‘Social Media and Mental Health’ by Braghieri et. al. (2021)

‘The Werther Effect- About the handling of suicide in the media’

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‘Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social media networks’ by Kramer et. al. (2014)

‘Auditing algorithmic bias on Twitter’ by Bartley et. al. (2021)

‘Identifying shifts in collective attention to topics on social media’ by He et. al. (2021)

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