We will also stream this seminar via Zoom.
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Nilàm Ram
Departments of Communication and Psychology
Stanford University

Dynamics and Development at Multiple Time-Scales: Screenomics and Other Super-Intensive Longitudinal Paradigms

A decade ago, we used newly emerging smartphone technologies to obtain multiple time-scale data that facilitated study of new intraindividual variability constructs and how they changed over time. The recent merging of daily and digital life further opens opportunity to observe, probe, and modify every imaginable aspect of human behavior – at a scale we never imagined. Using collections of intensive longitudinal data from survey panels, experience sampling studies, social media, laboratory observations, and our new Screenomics paradigm, I illustrate how methodological invocation of zooms, tensions, and switches (ZOOTS) is transforming our understanding of human dynamics and development. Along the way, I develop calls for more flexible definitions of time, diversity of methodological approach, and engagement with science that adds good into the world.

A pizza lunch will be served. Please bring your own beverage.

Graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to sign up for lunch with the speaker after the seminar. Space is limited – to join, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu