APS

2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023

Digital Trauma: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Instagram Posts

Washington, DC · May 2023

Poster · Social

  • SriVarsha Katoju
    University of Florida
  • Marina Klimenko
    University of Florida

Abstract

The aim of this study was to take advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic as a so-called natural experiment to examine potential changes in cognitive schemas and self presentation of college students on Instagram from before to after the pandemic. Our study found a potential "paradoxical positive effect".

Digital Media

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