🚨Last day to register for our ‘Communicating the Popular” Etmaal 2026 pre-conference! This is a unique opportunity to learn and discuss with leading experts in the field about the challenges and opportunities of public communication in today’s academia. Everyone’s welcome, join us!

"What forms of visibility are expected of scholars studying 'the popular'? How do we communicate critically about the media industries and cultures that mediate our own communication as researchers?" Join us to learn more at our PM&C pre-conference "Communicating the Popular"! 👇 #Etmaal2026

And we are live! 🚀 The Popular Media & Culture Division of @nefca.bsky.social is now on BlueSky. Follow us for updates on research, events, and nuggets of popular culture in the PM&C community. 👉 we want to connect and amplify your work--tag us or reach out if you have anything to share!

It was a pleasure to present my work w/ @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social (@mediapsychologylab.bsky.social) on meritocratic masculinities in music, resonance processes, and youth's mental health. 👉 poster and additional resources: lnkd.in/eUADqqyF Thanks for the organization @digisoc.bsky.social !

My book review 📚 of Dunkel & Schiller *Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe* is out on @ecpr-ead.bsky.social e-Extreme! This is a rich and engaging book, OA here: doi.org/10.4324/9781... Thanks @ghibordieri.bsky.social for the invite! 👉 Read my review here: ecpr.eu/Filestore/Cu...

Excited to share our latest preregistered study with Christoph Klimmt and @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social about the role of adolescents’ favorite music artists for the internalization of a performance-oriented self-concept! 🎶 doi.org/10.1080/1520... 1/

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Excited to share some conclusions of our research on youth and well-being @gonzalezanaelle.bsky.social @jasminarosic.bsky.social @luca-carbone.bsky.social @gvanhoffelen.bsky.social @mediapsychologylab.bsky.social

Honored and stoked to be awarded the best dissertation award from the Children, Adolescents, and Media (CAM) division of @icahdq.bsky.social ! 🎉

Looking forward to next week #ICA25! If you are interested in research on music🎵, adolescents🧒, and resonance💥, you can catch me at the following sessions👇

New pub! 📈 Can picture-perfect social media posts make adolescents more perfectionistic? Using a 3-wave panel design, we examined the reciprocal links between exposure to positive content on social media and perfectionism among 1,697 adolescents from Belgium, France, and Slovenia. Read more:

Pub alert ⚠️ It’s not just about 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 to be like them—it’s about 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯. Our new PoMRA scale measures perceptions of media role models’ attainability. We found that influencers seem more within reach than celebrities, underscoring why attainability matters in media effects studies✨

Congratulations @jasminarosic.bsky.social @laraschreurs.bsky.social and @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social !! ✨✨

Call for replication studies and peer-review of pre-registered reports on health behavior, great initiative! We need more of this.

Excited that our MIMIc Project, (team members @gonzalezanaelle.bsky.social , @jasminarosic.bsky.social , @gvanhoffelen.bsky.social and @luca-carbone.bsky.social ) on social media uses and teen's well-being and success beliefs will be featured at Osaka #EXPO2025! Many thanks to @erc.europa.eu !

We're proud to announce that the MIMIc Project, led by @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social alongside team members @gonzalezanaelle.bsky.social, @jasminarosic.bsky.social, @gvanhoffelen.bsky.social, and @luca-carbone.bsky.social will be featured at Osaka #EXPO2025! www.projectmimic.eu @erc.europa.eu

🆕 3-Year PhD in Quantitative Social Sciences on "Adolescent Social Media, Mental Health & Inequalities"! 🎯 Deadline: March 31 Supervisors: @pablogracia.bsky.social [@uab.cat @cedemografia.bsky.social] & @alinacosma.bsky.social [@tcddublin.bsky.social] Apply & Share!👇 webs.uab.cat/touch/jobs/s...

Making sense of heterogenous media content experiences and their effects with @luca-carbone.bsky.social and @chellymaes.bsky.social #etmaal2025 🧑‍🎓🎮📱📺🎧 @mediapsychologylab.bsky.social