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NeFCA's Popular Media and Culture Division @pmcnefca.bsky.social · 3d

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · 20d

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 !

Media Psychology Lab @mediapsychologylab.bsky.social · 20d

We attended the @digisoc.bsky.social International Conference for an Inclusive Digital Society in Leuven.👏@robynvanherle.bsky.social (co-)presented 2 mHealth studies, 1 with @svestkova-ady.bsky.social, @irtis.bsky.social. @luca-carbone.bsky.social presented on meritocratic masculinities in music.

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · 27d

Fascinating, looking forward to reading more!

Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · 27d

Maybe we need to update how we conceptualize filter bubbles in the streaming era? Genres themselves also change by becoming more hybrid (thinking here about discussions on genre innovation, such as in Kim & Askin, 2024: doi.org/10.1177/0003...).

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · 27d

Congratulations on this excellent work! I wonder if the results show us more that we are all omnivore on streaming platforms because there is so much content available, and whether we can actually say something about filter bubbles by just looking at genres (rather than content)?

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jul 28

This article is part of my PhD “MainStreaming Success” (www.lucacarbone.com/files/diss.pdf), where I explore how streaming platforms construct and distribute success narratives and how contemporary adolescents consume them in personalized media environments. More soon—stay tuned! the-end/

www.lucacarbone.com

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jul 28

3. Temporally-sensitive designs. To understand music narrative effects, we need to disentangle short- vs. long-term effects and better track how adolescents select, engage with, and reflect on different music products (e.g., videos, lyrics, social media) over time. 9/

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jul 28

2. Similarity matters. Based on SCT and resonance theory, we expected adolescents to identify more with and to learn from artists who share their lived experiences. While we focused on gender, key gaps emerged in race and class. Future work should consider age, race, ethnicity, and class. 8/

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jul 28

1. Selection, recommendation, and habituation. Given today’s diverse music content, we need to better understand how adolescents engage with heterogeneous narratives—especially how they select, get recommended, and become desensitized to performance-oriented messages. 7/

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jul 28

These findings shed new light on music narrative effects in today’s streaming era. In the discussion, we reflect on several future directions to best capture music narrative effects. Here, we particularly focus on three aspects that would benefit future research in this area. 6/

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jul 28

Findings show music preferences are fragmented (only 12% kept the same favorite artist) and wishful identification was low (2.14/5). Performance beliefs were common (music: 2.4/5; self-concept: 3.6/5), but adolescents did not internalize a performance-oriented self-concept from music. 5/

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jul 28

To examine how exposure to performance messages in favorite artists’ music relates to adolescents’ self-concept, we ran a 3-wave panel over one year with 405 Belgian adolescents. We used RI-CLPM with multi-group moderation to separate within- and between-person effects 📈. 4/

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jul 28

Music—especially from favorite artists 🎧—is a key source of performance messages for adolescents. Meta-analyses show that music consumption is linked to message-consistent beliefs, but most research is experimental or cross-sectional. We know little about how music shapes cognition over time 🧠. 3/

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jul 28

Contemporary adolescents live in societies that increasingly reward a view of the self where one's worth depends on their performance, whether at school or in their relationships. Internalizing such messages may empower some adolescents 💪, while leaving others more anxious and pressured ⚠️. 2/

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jul 28

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/

The Internalization of a Performance-Oriented Self-Concept Among Adolescents Through Their Favorite Music Artists

Music is a highly popular yet understudied element of adolescents’ media and cultural consumption that functions as an influential agent of socialization. Past work has shown the presence of perfor...

doi.org

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · Jul 8

CfP! We Want More: Music / Sociology!
Call for papers | International Popular Music Studies Conference at @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social 8th April 2026, deadline for abstracts 1st Oct 2025 www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/eve...

We Want More: Music / Sociology!

Join us to explore the sociology of (popular) music – from AI to activism, labour to care. Call for papers open until 1 October 2025.

www.eur.nl

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Laura @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Jun 22

The MIMIc project, led by @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social‬, investigates how ‘malleable ideals’—the constantly shifting portrayals of success & perfection in media—influence teenagers’ well-being, identity, and life aspirations.

Discover more 👉 buff.ly/jLuzdnI

Teenagers’ wellbeing affected by media narratives

europa.eu

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jun 14

This dissertation was conducted as part of the @erc.europa.eu project MIMIc, a special thanks goes to @gonzalezanaelle.bsky.social, @jasminarosic.bsky.social, and @gvanhoffelen.bsky.social for riding these years together and for making this dissertation possible!

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jun 14

Thank you Valerie!:)

Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jun 14

A special thanks to my supervisor @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social and to my wonderful colleagues at the @mediapsychologylab.bsky.social who guided, supported, and inspired me throughout these years ❤️

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jun 14

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

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jun 10

A special thanks to all the wonderful scholars I had the pleasure to work with for these papers/presentations:
Dr. Edward Noon
Prof. @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social
Prof. Christoph Klimmt
Prof. Julian Schaap

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jun 10

👉 A Theory of Resonant Experiences with Media
🧑‍🧒‍🧒 (HYBRID) ICA@75 THEME SESSION: Consolidating Communication Research: Theoretical, Organizational and Methodological Developments
📆 Monday 06/16
🕑 09.00-10.15
📍 Centennial E (Regency 3)

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Luca Carbone @luca-carbone.bsky.social · Jun 10

👉 Effort-Oriented Success Narratives in Music and Their Internalization Among Adolescents
🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Children, Adolescents, and Media (CAM) Poster Session
📆 Saturday 06/14
🕑 13.30-14.45
📍 REGISTRATION, 70 Centennial Foyer (Regency 3)

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