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Doug Parry

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Assistant Prof of Media Psychology in the Department of Communication Science at VU Amsterdam (🇳🇱) researching media effects, digital well-being, attention, mental health. Open Science, Computational Methods 🖥️ https://dougaparry.com 🇿🇦 From South Africa

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 22h

Really interesting. I've seen the same with smartphone app tracking data. Many participants use apps associated with many different panels/survey companies/survey tools and seemingly spend a considerable proportion of their time answering surveys: panel_app --> browser -> panel_app -> browser, etc.

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 7d

If you ever needed info on themes in ggplot2, this is the one post to read!

Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 7d

🎨 Theming got a huge overhaul with the latest #ggplot2 release. In honour of that @teunbrand.bsky.social has written a comprehensive deep-dive into styling your plots, covering both old and new functionality. Grab a coffee and dive in!

#rstats

ggplot2 styling

This post discusses one function in ggplot2: `theme()`. Find out about the glamour of graphics in this deep-dive article.

www.tidyverse.org

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 20d

Ah that's great! Thanks!

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 20d

Awesome, merged it!

I don't have time now but I may use some of these other lists/tables and build out this repo with a list of tools as I'm sure many others might also find it useful.

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 20d

Ah, that's a great start!

Yeah, I think it would definitely be a cool resource to have in some way.

I started something here (with one partial entry)

github.com/dougaparry/M...

github.com

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 20d

I've used many ESM/mobile sensing apps/tools but it's been a while since I've launched a new study of this kind.

Does anyone know of an uptodate table/taxonomy/document/resource/github page summarising the relative features/options/pros/cons/pricing of the various options?

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 22d

How is this even pronounced?

text-tie-ety?
text-tea-ety?
text-tay-ety?

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ICA Mobile Communication @icamobile.bsky.social · 24d

We are currently accepting extended abstracts and workshop proposals for the #ICA2026 Mobile Preconference! We invite submissions across diverse disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical backgrounds!

Deadline is 30th January 2026, and the full call can be found here: www.icamobile.org/calls

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 27d

Open Terms Archive[1] is a pretty cool service: They track, scrape, and store all versions of online platforms' ToS and privacy policies and make them publicly available. Might be pretty interesting to use e.g. in longitudinal studies to track platform changes.

[1]: opentermsarchive.org/en/

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 29d

There are a BUNCH of awesome candidates up for election in @icamobile.bsky.social this year. Cast your vote before October 21st! www.icahdq.org/page/Electio...

International Communication Association

The upcoming calendar is currently empty.

www.icahdq.org

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 29d

From Street to Screen: Online Risks and Digital Literacy Among Adolescents in the Global South

@mienkemaristeytler.bsky.social

How do adolescents in a low-income, semi-rural South African community navigate the dual promise and peril of social media.

Preprint coming soon…

📆 12.09, 13h00, LK053

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 29d

Debate Club: We Don’t Need Digital Traces of Time Spent on Digital Media

@klingelhoefer.bsky.social

We will debate the role, importance, shortcomings, & relative value of this data to prompt critical reflection.

This debate draws on our preprint

➡ doi.org/10.31234/osf...

📆 12.09, 09h00, LX1205

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 29d

From r/nosurf to #digitaldetox: A computational analysis of discourses of technology resistance and digital well-being

@chrdrn.bsky.social, @klingelhoefer.bsky.social, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social

We will present preliminary results from our analysis of Twitter & Reddit data.

📆 11.09, 16h15, LK051

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 29d

Excited to be attending @mepsy.bsky.social #MePsy25 for the first time, this week!

I’ll be sharing work in progress & findings from 3 projects on:

(1) online risks and digital literacy (interviews)
(2) digital disconnection discourses (NLP)
(3) digital trace data methods (position)

⬇️ for details:

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · Sep 8

Netherlands. One international and one local conference per year via dept. If you hold a grant, expected to cover from there. Strongly encouraged for env reasons to only fly internationally every 2 years.

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ah that's interesting! Yeah, I can see the relevance. 👀

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks! Will do. Yeah I totally see it with games. I'm also thinking of other media like music/music videos as drivers

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm looking for media psychology research on 'anemoia' - a feeling of longing or nostalgia for a time and place that one has never experienced.

Any leads appreciated?! 🙏

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · Aug 29

@britdavidson.bsky.social et al. Write about it here doi.org/10.1038/s415... and I also add some more here doi.org/10.17159/saj...

Platform-controlled social media APIs threaten open science - Nature Human Behaviour

Social media data enable insights into human behaviour. Researchers can access these data via platform-provided application programming interfaces (APIs), but these come with restrictive usage terms t...

doi.org

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · Aug 21

Yeah, makes you think about researchers who study social media who don't use the platforms themselves..

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yeah something like that and/or some kind of choice-paradigm accompanied by an attentional control task

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · Aug 20

How would you test the capacity vs preference hypothesis?

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · Aug 20

The flood of peer review requests coming in has signaled the end of summer.

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · Aug 20

It's telling that @hankgreen.bsky.social's Pomodoro timer/version of the "Forest: Stay Focused" app is currently the #1 downloaded app on iOS #digitalselfcontrol

John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's genuinely absurd that Hank has co-created the most popular app in the United States. This is only going to encourage him.

Image showing the Top Charts of the App Store, with Hank's Focus Friend at #1 ahead of chatgpt and google.

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · Aug 13

...and there's coffee, food, drinks, and well-scheduled breaks as standard!