Cyberpsychology published a new special issue about the timely topic of digital advertising and consumer empowerment.
Guest editors of the issue were Liselot Hudders from Ghent University, Eva A. van Reijmersdal and Karolien Poels from University of Amsterdam. Their joint effort with authors and reviewers led to a collection of four interesting articles that are listed below.
Editorial: Digital advertising and consumer empowerment
Liselot Hudders, Eva A. van Reijmersdal, Karolien Poels
Protective behavior against personalized ads: Motivation to turn personalization off
Joanna Strycharz, Guda van Noort, Edith Smit, Natali Helberger
Insights in adolescents’ advertising literacy, perceptions and responses regarding sponsored influencer videos and disclosures
Sophia van Dam, Eva van Reijmersdal
Serious games going beyond the Call of Duty: Impact of an advertising literacy mini-game platform on adolescents’ motivational outcomes through user experiences and learning outcomes
Steffi De Jans, Liselot Hudders, Laura Herrewijn, Klara van Geit, Veroline Cauberghe
Discourse analysis of online product reviews: A discussion of digital consumerism and culture
Haseon Park, Joonghwa Lee
As part of Safer Internet Day 2025, the Interdisciplinary Research Team on Internet and Society (IRTIS), a member of the EU Kids Online network, presents a new report with key findings from 15 comprehensive studies examining the impact of digital technology use on adolescent wellbeing.
A second research report from the project CYBERPLUS has been published: “Plus-size hate: Exploring young Czech people's reactions to cyberhate targeting overweight people”. Read more in the article.
