Susanne Baumgartner (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), at the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the Youth and Media Entertainment program group, the Center for Research on Children, Adolescents, and the Media, and the Digital Communication Methods Lab. After studying Communication Science, Social Psychology and English Literature at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a research visit at the Annenberg School for Communication (Univesrity of Southern California), she gained her PhD at the UvA (2013). Her research focuses on the role of digital media in adolescent development. Specifically, she is interested in media multitasking and how this affects the cognitive development of youth. Moreover, she studies the effects of digital media on stress and sleep. To study the impact of digital media, she employs innovative methodological approaches, such as experience sampling, smartphone tracking data, and eye-tracking. She received several rewards and grants, among others from the International Communication Association and from NWO (Aspasia grant, 2022).
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