The Dark Psychological Impacts of Social Media in the Workplace

A large body of research has considered the positive aspects of social media in the workplace. However, emerging research and practice are beginning to focus on complex and often alarming ways in which use of social media may harmfully affect workers. For example, addiction, anxiety and depression, privacy violation, stress, information overload, and work-family conflict are some of the issues that have been studied so far. This workshop focuses on these dark psychological effects of social media in the workplace.

SPEAKERS

9.30 – 10.30 Dr. Eoin Whelan (NUI Galway) – The darkside of enterprise social media

10.30 – 11.30 Prof. Hanna Krasnova (University of Potsdam) – Social media and well-being: The bright, the dark and the ugly

11.30 – 12.30 Prof. Tom Jackson (Loughborough University) – Email related stress: The physiological impact of email stress on employee effectiveness

12.30 – 1.00 Break (light lunch provided)

1.00 – 2.00 Prof. Monideepa Tarafdar (Lancaster University) – Technostress and workplace wellbeing.