Social Informatics

Recent studies have shown that there is a negative correlation between social media and academic performance, since they can lead to behaviours that hurt students’ careers, e.g., addictedness. However, these studies either focus on smartphones and social media addictedness per se or rely on sociological surveys, which only provide approximate estimations of the phenomena. We propose to bridge this gap by (i) parametrizing social media usage and academic performance and (ii) combining smartphones and time diaries to keep track of users’ activities and their smartphone interaction. By analyzing the logs of social media apps while studying and attending lessons, and comparing them to students’ GPA, we can quantify negative and positive correlations via smartphones.