ADVOCATING for Change Together
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Background
- Michael is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Check out his bio at the Digital Wellness Lab.
- His research focuses on advancing frameworks and methods to study emerging media technologies (e.g., social media) and their corresponding effects--particularly, among adolescents.
- Michael is striving to advance work to improve understanding of how social media design relates to adolescent mental health, and in particular, how to leverage the design of social media to support positive development and mental health outcomes among youth.
- Check out Michael's Google Scholar
Select Peer-Reviewed Publications
- Carter, M.C. (2023). Advancing a flexible and systematic basis for observing health correlates: Social media in the context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework. JAMA Pediatrics, 177(7), 659-660. https://doi.org//10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.1056
- Carter, M.C., Cingel, D.P., Vigil, S., & Ruiz, R.B. (May, 2023). A replication and extension of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework. [Paper Presentation] 73nd International Communication Association Conference, Toronto, Canada*
- Carter, M.C., Cingel, D.P., Ruiz, J.B., & Wartella, E. (May, 2022). Social media as a digital context for social interaction: The personal social media ecosystem framework in contemporary society. [Paper presentation] 72nd International Communication Association Conference, Paris, France.*
- Cingel, D.P., Carter, M.C., & Krause, H. (2022). Social media and self-esteem. Current Opinion in Psychology, 45, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101304
Fellowships and Awards
- Awardee, Top Paper Award, Communication and Technology Division, International Communication Association, 2023. Toronto, CAN*
- Awardee, Top Paper Award, Communication and Technology Division, International Communication Association, 2022. Paris, FR*
- Awardee, Dean's Summer Graduate Fellowship, UC Davis, 2020. Davis, CA
- Awardee, Outstanding Senior Award in the Communication Major, UC Davis College of Letters & Science, 2017. Davis, CA