# Jolien Trekels - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Jolien Trekels for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-07-31

## Identity
- Name: Jolien Trekels
- Role: Assistant Professor, media literacy & adolescent development
- Company: University of Vienna
- Location: Belgium
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jolien-trekels-58246587

## Expertise
- founder-health
- smart-glasses

## About
TLDR

Jolien Trekels is Assistant Professor, media literacy & adolescent development at University of Vienna.

Background

Hosts Tim and Pieter interview Jolien Trekels, assistant professor at the University of Vienna specialized in the impact of social media on adolescents. Against the backdrop of the US lawsuits against Meta and Google over addictive design, she explains that large-scale studies and meta-analyses show a real but very small link between social media/smartphone use and wellbeing, explaining only about 1% of variance, and that causality is hard to establish. She argues age limits for social media lack scientific grounding, that classroom smartphone bans are defensible but full-day bans risk overcompensation and cutting off social connection, and presents her 'Swiss cheese model' of layered protective and risk factors. Her core message: there is no one-size-fits-all effect and media literacy must be a collective societal effort.

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Talks about

Founder health (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/founder-health/llms.txt)

From public interviews and talks · updated 2026-08-01.
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## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [concept] Founder health: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/founder-health/llms.txt
- [company] Superlinear: https://techwiki.ai/companies/superlinear/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-08-25] I’m very happy to share that Sona Vybostokova has started her PhD with me at the Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft,… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jolien-trekels-58246587_artificialintelligence-ailiteracy-ethnography-activity-7497935839780335616-LmPf)
- [2026-08-04] Excited to share our new paper on digital status-seeking in adolescence! Social media gives young people countless opportunities to gain… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jolien-trekels-58246587_neural-and-psychological-predictors-of-digital-activity-7490382242616254465-dl40)

## How to Reach
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jolien-trekels-58246587
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/jolien-trekels/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/jolien-trekels/llms-full.txt

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