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EPISODE · Mar 3, 2026 · 17 MIN

What even is social media?

from InBits · host Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton, Dr Liam Challenor

We talked to Evelyn Murray, Psychology PhD candidate at Aston University, at the BPS Cyberpsychology Conference in July last year. She presented her research on how people perceive social media and what counts as a social media platform. We were amazed by how little agreement there is! We knew immediately that we wanted to hear about her research on the podcast.    You can find Evelyn's study here as a pre-print:  Exploring Public Perceptions of Social Media: A Preregistered Mixed-Methods Study" - (Preprint link) https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/n7xr3_v1 And you can find Evelyn on LinkedIn here https://www.linkedin.com/in/evelyn-murray-7ba154248/  

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