Vol 3 Issue 4 Oct-Dec 2025

Author Name: Kanwar AdhiRaj Singh Jodha Date: 27-03-2026 Big data methodologies have transformed audience measurement in journalism, replacing sample-based surveys with census-level behavioral observation of digital news consumption. Yet the psychometric properties of big data-derived audience measures — their validity, reliability, and construct equivalence across demographic groups and platforms — remain largely unexamined, creating an […]

Author Name: Abhishikth Gajulavarti Date: 27-03-2026 Doomscrolling — the compulsive consumption of negative news content despite awareness of resultant distress — emerged as a widely recognized behavioral phenomenon during the COVID-19 pandemic and has persisted as a clinically significant pattern across subsequent crises. Despite its prevalence and popular attention, doomscrolling lacks a consensus definition, a

Author Name: Prakhar Shankar Date: 27-03-2026 Social media platforms have become repositories of psychologically rich behavioral data whose analysis offers unprecedented opportunities for population-level depression screening and individual-level clinical assessment. This paper provides a comprehensive review of passive sensing and natural language processing (NLP) approaches to depression detection from social media data, evaluating their validity, clinical

Author Name: Madhav Menon Date: 27-03-2026 The relationship between social media exposure and anxiety has become one of the most contested empirical questions in contemporary psychological science, with studies producing contradictory findings that reflect methodological heterogeneity rather than genuine theoretical inconsistency. This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical review of the social media-anxiety association, with

Author Name: Niharika Kapoor Date: 27-03-2026 Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) delivered through mobile smartphones offers media psychology research a methodological breakthrough in capturing psychological responses to digital media exposure in real time, in natural contexts, and at ecological validity levels impossible in traditional laboratory or survey designs. This paper provides a comprehensive review and methodological framework