News
13.02.2024Retreat 2024
Our project team spent this year's retreat in snowy Schwelm. Over the three days, the meeting focussed on data analysis and the writing of publications. In addition, numerous discussions were held both in the seminar room and in a relaxed atmosphere during creative walks on exciting topics relating to functional media use among children and young people. Altogether, the three intensive days were characterised by exciting collaboration and valuable outcomes.
19.09.2023German Addiction Congress 2023
The RuhrNetwork was also represented at this year's Addiction Congress in Berlin and presented the results of a systematic meta-review of the research group on "Functional digital media use in children and adolescents".
19.04.2023Successful workshop
The entire project team spent three successful workshop days with the best view in Haltern am See. They worked on the concept for the planned funding applications, finalized a current study, and developed a questionnaire to assess the degree of functional use of digital media. In addition to work-related content, there was also personal exchange. In fact, for some participants, this meeting represented the first opportunity to see and talk to each other outside of Zoom rooms - live and in color. All in all, a great success!
05.10.2022German Addiction Congress 2022
From 07 - 09 September 2022, the German Addiction Congress took place in Munich, where the RuhrNetwork for Functional Digital Media-Use in Children and Adolescents was also represented with its own presentations. Stephanie Antons introduced the concept of functional media use in children and adolescents and gave an overview of previous research in this area. Julia Brailovskaia presented the results of a longitudinal intervention to improve mental health through controlled change in smartphone use. Exciting discussions emerged through the presentations and stimulated collaborative exchanges between research and clinical scientists.
The abstracts of both presentations can be found in the digital issue of Suchttherapie August 2022, published by Georg Thieme Verlag.
26.09.2022Editorial in Frontiers in Psychology
In the context of the RuhrNetwork for Functional Digital Media-Use in Children and Adolescents, an editorial on functional as well as dysfunctional digital media use has been published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. In the course of this, we are looking forward to receiving manuscripts on this topic, which can be submitted until mid-December.
17.05.2022MERCUR Club
On May 17, 2022, the MERCUR Club took place at Stiftung Mercator in Essen, Germany, offering scientists an exciting overview of the projects currently being funded by MERCUR.
In addition to selected projects on well-being in adolescence, materials for sustainable electroanalytical hydration reactions and the role of memory for the future, Stephanie Antons also had the opportunity to give UA Ruhr scientists an insight into the research work of the project "RuhrNetwork for Functional Digital Media-Use in Children and Adolescents".
01.01.2022Project funding approved by MERCUR
The Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR) has approved funding for the project "RuhrNetwork for Functional Digital Media-Use in Children and Adolescents". In this cross-university research project, young researchers from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Ruhr University Bochum and TU Dortmund University will work together. The aim of the project is to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms of functional digital media use among children and young people and to develop measures to promote this. The research team will start its work on 01.09.2022.