Podcasts/Radio
2022
Is Social Media to Blame for Mental Illness? (Stanford Psychology Podcast) In this episode, Anjie and Johannes chat about how social media could be a lens to understand mental illnesses such as depression. Johannes also shares his thoughts on the emerging trends in social media, and how some powerful technocrats in Silicon Valley might have some huge blind spots in understanding human nature.
The Future of Everything E179 | How can social media be used to gauge a population’s psychological state, including how events like COVID-19 have impacted well-being? Altman and Eichstaedt discuss how social media has the potential to work as an early warning system for public health crises to help cities and counties deploy resources where they’re most needed.
2020
What NLP Tells Us About COVID-19 and Mental Health (Podcast)
This week in ML. We discuss some of the major patterns in the data that emerged over the first few months of lockdown, including mental health, social norms, and political patterns.
2019 and earlier
Deutschlandfunk - Forschung Aktuell (in German)
Facebook-Posts zur Früherkennung von Depression nutzen (November, 2018)
NPR - Morning Edition
Angry Tweets Predict Patterns Of Heart Disease, Researchers Say (February, 2015)
ABC Australia - Life Matters with Natasha Mitchell
A 20 minute introduction to our work about personality, age, gender and well-being (website, February 2014).
Natasha Mitchell is awesome.
SiriusXM
20 minutes, October 2014
Video/TV
NBC Nightly News (04/2023)
Artificial intelligence is adding a new dimension to the political universe. NBC News’ Hallie Jackson reports on the danger of disinformation that could come along with the tech, showing us how easily AI can be used to make fake videos or images.
Stanford HAI (08/2022)
Incivility is Rising on Twitter Among U.S. Politicians
[Link to published study] Frimer, J. A., Aujla, H., Feinberg, M., Skitka, L. J., Aquino, K., Eichstaedt, J. C., & Willer, R. (2022). Incivility is rising among American politicians on Twitter. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506221083811.
CBS Philadelphia (11/2018)
Facebook Can Be Used To Spot Depression, Found Study
ABC 11Alive (11/2018)
Could doctors one day use your Facebook profile to screen for depression
ABC Action News
Does Twitter predict heart disease?