I have multiple ongoing collaborations focused on adolescents' and emerging adults' social media use.
For example, I am working with César Escobar-Viera to develop a social-media delivered intervention to reduce social isolation among rural LGBTQ+ youth, funded by the ETUDES Center.
I also have long-standing collaborations with Jackie Nesi (Brown University), Mitch Prinstein (UNC Chapel Hill), and Matteo Giletta (Ghent University, Belgium) on studies related to peer relations and social media use.
I am a collaborator on several studies involving social media use and suicide risk. I am a co-investigator on an R01-funded study (PIs Jen Silk and Cecile Ladouceur), the Teen SCREEN Study, which uses multiple methods to understand neural and social predictors of adolescent girls’ suicide risk, including social media experiences, using a combination of fMRI, ecological momentary assessment, and other measures.
In a collaboration with Caroline Oppenheimer of RTI and Jen Silk, Jamie Hanson, and Helmet Karim of Pitt, we are developing and testing TeenBrainOnline, a simulated social media task to be used in the fMRI scanner.
And as a co-investigator on an R21-funded study (PI Jamie Zelazny, Pitt School of Nursing), I am collaborating on an exciting new project that uses natural language processing to understand patterns of social media use preceding youths' hospitalization for suicide attempts, based on real social media interactions.