
👉🏻 Switched to BlueSky App // Guest Professor @UAntwerpen_Comm //Postdoc @SeaLab_UNC// Investigating digitalization in youth's development
Joined January 2015
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So happy to share that I started a new chapter at the @SeaLab_UNC !
We are excited to welcome Dr. Chelly Maes (@ChellyMaes) to the SEA Lab! She is a postdoctoral researcher who examines the complex relationships between digital media use and youth development, focusing on body image, sexuality, identity, and mental health.
Seeking a motivated Ph.D. student to study digital media use among youth with visual impairment, focusing on body image and identity development! This PhD position is part of a larger project funded by the prestigious Horizon Europe Framework Programme.
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Excited to share we are starting a new project on pornography and youth at @LeuvenMassComm to empower youth in their online sexual socialization. Our latest pub underlines why this is much needed 👇@helene_laporte @ChellyMaes @EggermontSteven
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I was invited to Journaal Laat @vrtnws to discuss YouTube's new measures regulating children’s exposure to harmful appearance-related videos. 🧒📱They are a small step in the right direction towards creating a safer digital space for children!
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Today I shared my work with the most wonderful community of body image scholars at the #AM10 conference 🧑🎓 ! Big thanks to my co-authors @L__Vandenbosch, Jessica Alleva, and Nikol Kvarova!
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Happy to attend the 10th Appearance Matters Conference in Bristol 🇬🇧 together with @L__Vandenbosch and @ChellyMaes! After a wonderful first day filled with inspiring research, I am greatly looking forward to the upcoming days! #AM10
Thanks for the interesting conversation @apenstaartjaren !
Heldere toelichting van @ChellyMaes over hoe complex sociale media effecten zijn op het lichaamsbeeld van jongens en meisjes @LeuvenMassComm @apenstaartjaren 🧑🎓🚀💯
Absolutely honored to receive the top published paper award! Huge thanks to @icacamdivision ! 🥳
Congratulations to our 2024 @icahdq @icacamdivision Award Winners! Check out the insights, advice, and research offered by our winners AnneMarie McClain, Jane Shawcroft, Robyn Vanherle, Chelly Maes, Shina Aladé, Nancy Jennings, and Marie-Louise Mares! ica-cam.org/in-the-spotlight…
📢 Exciting Opportunity Alert! We're looking for a passionate PhD candidate to join me, @L__Vandenbosch, and @EggermontSteven at @LeuvenMassComm in this groundbreaking research on youth's pornography uses. Check out the application process here⬇️
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Grateful to have welcomed this amazing group of body image and social media scholars in Leuven 🧠💡 @LeuvenMassComm @JessicaAlleva @JasmineFardouly @MetteHermans @chellymaes @lara_schreurs @dedecker_laure @kathbeullens @KoningsFemke @VrankenIlse @GVanhoffelen
My research on victim blaming and non-consensual forwarding of sexting messages in @Knack 👇🏼
📢 Exciting news! 🎉 Our latest publication on adolescents' preferences for mainstream and paraphilic pornography and sexual health outcomes over time is now available to read in @HCeditorialteam !
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📣 CFP: #ICA24 Pre-Conference on "Engaging Children and Adolescents Meaningfully in Media and Communications Research" (Co-Sponsored by @icacamdivision & @gcsc2020). Papers (500 word abstracts) due March 21. More information here: westernsydney.edu.au/young-a…
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💡 Making the Good Better? Investigating the Long-term Associations Between Capitalization on Social Media and Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction by @EdwardJNoon @ChellyMaes @KathrinKarsay & @L__Vandenbosch (2/7)
Just presented our study about active bystanders in non-consensual forwarding of sexting messages among youth 🍆🍑at the romance session of #etmaal2024 !
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Sexting doet bij veel ouders alarmbellen rinkelen. Is het echt zo gevaarlijk? Of biedt het (sommige) jongeren de nodige tools om zichzelf te ontwikkelen? @L__Vandenbosch en Chelly Maes ontsluieren het digitale doolhof van sexting op #SWAY:
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📣Our collaborative research on adolescents' remembering of TV narratives and sexuality development using a biographic resonance perspective was just published in @MassComm_Soc
@USchwertberger, @_DianaRieger (@ifkw_lmu), @L_Vandenbosch (@LeuvenMassComm)
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New pub alert ! With @L__Vandenbosch , I studied how heterosexual adolescents' viewing of sex-positive content on 📺 can foster LGBTQ+ allyship over time 🏳️🌈(in Communication Research @SageMedia_Comm)
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And now for something completely different:
Ik mocht aantreden om het te hebben over ✨Male body positivity✨ als man met lichtgevende schedel 🌝
Zalige ervaring met @aurelie_boffe, @ChellyMaes & @ManuVanAcker - give it a listen 👇
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