Designing Tomorrow

Promoting Human Flourishing Through Purpose-Driven AI: Insights from the 2025 Psychology of Technology Conference

Across a series of publicly available linked talks, researchers, designers, and civil society stakeholders presented research on how technology could be…

Mar 23 • Roshni Raveendhran

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Schools Are Banning AI. Students Are Using It Anyway.

Teens are using AI for schoolwork regardless of school policies and parents are unaware teens are using AI as much as they are. Teens and adults are…

Mar 19 • Amie Rapaport, Anna Saavedra, and Dan Silver

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February 2026

The 2024 U.S. Election in Social Media: Changes in How Americans Used and Experienced 17 Platforms

Experiences across platforms remained relatively stable, suggesting that platform norms and designs may matter more than the time period. Negative…

Feb 25 • Emily Xing, Yuning Liu, Ravi Iyer, Parama Sigurdsen, and Nathanael Fast

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July 2025

Reddit in Transition: A Two-Year Examination of Social Media Experiences and Evolution

In the past 2 years, Reddit has grown its user base while also increasing the proportion of users who learn important/useful things & decreasing the…

Jul 17, 2025 • Emily Xing, Yuning Liu, Ravi Iyer, and Nathanael Fast

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June 2025

Eight Policy Principles to Guide our Relationship with Digital Technology

Policies have enabled cars and airplanes to be used safely. No such policies exist for social media or AI. Progress is being made to fix this…

Published on After Babel • Jun 6, 2025

Congratulations to the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award Winners

We are thrilled to now announce this year's award winners and honorable mentions, who were selected from our most competitive pool of applicants ever

Jun 4, 2025 • Nathanael Fast, Juliana Schroeder, and Ravi Iyer

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April 2025

Social Media Experiences Across Nearly 2 Years Since Launching the Social Media Index

With new data through January 2025, we find that social media use is decreasing, bad experiences are mostly holding steady, and positive experiences are…

Apr 24, 2025 • Matt Motyl

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Social Media and Politics from 2023-2025

I examine the political identities, extremity, and polarization of US adults across platforms over a 2-year national survey.

Apr 1, 2025 • Matt Motyl

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November 2024

How Social Media Experiences Changed from March 2023 through May 2024

With new data through May 2024, we find that Reddit is increasingly informing users, while X isn’t across 5 survey waves conducted between 2023 & 2024

Nov 18, 2024 • Matt Motyl

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