There is widespread public and academic interest in understanding the uses and effects of
digital media. Scholars primarily use self-report measures of the quantity or duration of …

Women and men play video games in approximately equal numbers. Despite this similarity,
video gaming is still strongly associated with men. A common justification for this stereotype …

The methodological tool chest available to those who study digital technologies ranges from
those that are uniquely digital methods to approaches that are well established in the social …

Video games are a massively popular form of entertainment, socializing, cooperation and
competition. Games' ubiquity fuels fears that they cause poor mental health, and major …

Given the importance of survey measures of online media use for communication research,
it is crucial to assess and improve their quality, in particular because the increasingly …

Using Apple's Screen Time application to obtain reported actual iPhone and social media
(SM) use, we examined the accuracy of retrospective estimates of usage, how inaccuracies …

Background Videogame addiction has been suggested as a tentative disorder in 2013 by
the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and was recently officially recognized as a …

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase in pornography use has been
reported based on cross-sectional findings, raising concerns about associated adverse …

The worldwide popularity of playing practices has led to a growing research interest in
games' impact on behavior and cognition. Many studies have already reported the benefits …

Prior research on digital games illustrates a perceived gender gap in participation and
performance, suggesting men as playing more and better than women. This article …