1. Complete this questionnaire to let us know about your plans to use Social Media TestDrive for research.

This questionnaire is a non-binding survey that gives us a better understanding of how researchers are using the platform.

2. Use our published research and findings to guide your research study.

The following published papers give an overview and history of Social Media TestDrive and the underlying theory behind the platform. The last paper also provides a developed and validated inventory of social media literacy measures.

DiFranzo, D., Choi, Y.H., Purington, A., Taft, J.G., Whitlock, J., Bazarova, N.N. (2019). Social Media TestDrive: Real-World social media education for the next generation. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'19). Glasgow, UK.

Purington Drake, A., Masur, P.K., Bazarova, N.N., Zou, E., & Whitlock, J. (2023). The Youth Social Media Literacy Scale: Scale Development and Validation Using Item Response Theory. Journal of Children and Media. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2023.2230493

3. Cite Social Media TestDrive in your research paper.

You may use the following citation:

DiFranzo, D., Choi, Y.H., Purington, A., Taft, J.G., Whitlock, J., Bazarova, N.N. (2019). Social Media TestDrive: Real-World social media education for the next generation. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'19). Glasgow, UK.

4. Share your findings with us through email!

We would love to hear about your study findings and contribution to the research community. Please email us a study report after you have completed your study to socialmediatestdrive@gmail.com.

5. Consider donating to Social Media TestDrive

Lastly, while Social Media TestDrive is a free resource, we appreciate and rely on donations to keep it active and cover the service and support costs. Feel free to make a donation here.