Instagram Use and the Well-Being of Adolescents: Using Deep Learning to Link Social Scientific Self-reports with Instagram Data Download Packages

Abstract

Since the introduction of social media platforms, researchers have investigated how the use of such media affects adolescents’ well-being. Thus far, findings have been inconsistent. The aim of our interdisciplinary project is to provide a more thorough understanding of these inconsistencies by investigating who benefits from social media use, who does not and why it is beneficial for one yet harmful for another. In this presentation, we explain our approach to combining social scientific self-report data with the use of deep learning to analyze personal Instagram archives