Social Media, Networks and Interactions
This theme involves applying computational methods to analyze large-scale social media data for understanding human behaviour, social interactions, and societal phenomena. Key areas of research that are also of practical value will include use of GenAI on social media, social media use in the workplace, digital literacy in social media use, and developing resilience to the impacts of social media on well-being.
Theme Leads
Atreyi KANKANHALLI, School of Computing
Natalie PANG, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Key Areas of Focus & Collaboration
- Creativity, authenticity, user experience, virality, ownership, ethics.
- Knowledge dissemination, digital distraction, work-life balance, normative shifts.
- Scamming, consequences for underprivileged groups.
- Rejection, isolation, toxicity, addiction shadowbanning, interventions to promote resilience.
- Fragmentation, echo chambers, campaigns and elections.