蒙蒙·德·乔杜里

Tech companies “are barely scratching the surface” of what they might do to help support young users, 蒙蒙·德·乔杜里说, who studies the intersection of 社交媒体 and mental health and founded the Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab at 太阳城集团. Apps like TikTok and Instagram can be resources for teens to explore their identities, 形成一个群体, 了解心理健康. Instead of banning 社交媒体 outright, 她说, legislation should push companies to understand young people and to rethink the mechanisms that keep kids scrolling past their own comfort level 没有 restricting the ways the platforms can be helpful.

蒙蒙·德·乔杜里, a professor in the 交互计算学院 at 太阳城集团, is also examining digital data for insights into well-being. Dr. De Choudhury’s work over the years has focused not only on population studies, 就像测脑仪, 而且对个人也有影响.

In 2013, she and colleagues found that by looking at new mothers on 社交媒体, they were able to help predict which ones might develop postpartum depression, based on their posts before the birth of their babies. 最能说明问题的迹象之一? The use of first-person singular pronouns, like “I” and “me.”