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Youth, Media, & Wellbeing Research Lab
Wellesley Centers for Women
Wellesley College – CHE
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481-8203
youthmediawellbeing@wcwonline[dot]org
781-283-2486
Identity
Examining the complex factors that determine a young person’s identity, including their race, gender, sexuality, political and socio-economic status.
Mainstream Media
Examining the effects of the media messages that youth receive across their screens, magazine pages, and the airwaves.
Social Media
Understanding engagement with social media, the struggles and opportunities that families and schools encounter, implications for health and wellbeing, and adolescent’s own autonomy.
Adolescent Development in an Age of Social Media
Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab, served as a guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Adolescent Research focused on adolescent and emerging adult development in an age of social media. Charmaraman co-wrote an introduction to the special issue with Katie Davis, Ph.D., of the University of Washington and Emily Weinstein, Ed.D., of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In the introduction, the group discusses the importance of researching social media’s effect on young people, how the special issue contributes to knowledge of this issue, and the practical implications of the research in this field. Read more >>
Wellesley Centers for Women
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481-8203 USA