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Julius Klingelhoefer
@klingelhoefer.bsky.social
PhD Candidate researching digital disconnection and how well-being is shaped by communication technology at home, at work, and in-between.
(He/him)
Website: https://klingelhoefer.github.io
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To investigate media effects, do we have to think more clearly about time ⌚? Our new publication in the 🎉*Journal of Communication*🎉 investigates how our conceptualizations of time can affect our conclusions: doi.org/10.1093/joc/... (1/6)
Possible futures all at once: time frame and time lag in short-term longitudinal media effects research on well-being
Abstract. When assessing media effects, we seldom consider how they change over time. Especially with the prevalence of smartphone use as short-lived, frag
doi.org
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Had fun presenting on my forthcoming work about social media habits and addiction at the USC Neely Center and Addiction Sciences Institute the other week...A recording is now available on YouTube! Link below goes to my intro and ~15min talk; Q&A is at the end!

youtu.be/QT6G0PpvQhg?...
State of the Science: Digital Media and Addiction Webinar
YouTube video by Neely Center
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Ever found yourself scrolling on your phone in the middle of a conversation?📱👥Curious about why this happens, @annastockmann.bsky.social and I explored the situational drivers of co-present phone use in our new🔓#OpenAccess paper, just published in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social🎉 (1/6)
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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@klingelhoefer.bsky.social is a PhD candidate and researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focuses on digital disconnection, mental heatlh, digital self-regulation, technology use at work, and intensive longitudinal methods.
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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@janadreston.bsky.social is a PhD student at @unidue.bsky.social. Her research focuses on political and scientific communication on social media. She analyses the impact of information processing on knowledge and participation.
October 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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📱🏡 Sarah Wagner explores how long-term care residents in 🇨🇦 engage with - and sometimes resist - mobile tech.

💡 The study reframes digital inclusion through relational digital agency, highlighting choice, limits, and meaning in connection and disconnection.

🔓 #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1177/2050...
October 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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How often is too often in ESM research?
🚨New study out!
We compared 6 beeps/day vs. 12 beeps in 2 h bursts.
Both work, but burst designs show more fatigue + attrition — still useful if high temporal precision matters.
App onboarding, though? Big bias alert. 📱

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Very cool panel! Looking forward to attending.
Looking forward to being on this STACKED panel celebrating five years of the Digitox seminar series on digital disconnection 🎉 We'll be taking stock of the past, present, and future of disconnection 📵

www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/...
Digitox seminar January 2026 - Department of Media and Communication
The state of the field: A panel conversation on theoretical and methodological developments in disconnection studies. Where have we been and where are we going?
www.hf.uio.no
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Looking forward to being on this STACKED panel celebrating five years of the Digitox seminar series on digital disconnection 🎉 We'll be taking stock of the past, present, and future of disconnection 📵

www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/...
Digitox seminar January 2026 - Department of Media and Communication
The state of the field: A panel conversation on theoretical and methodological developments in disconnection studies. Where have we been and where are we going?
www.hf.uio.no
October 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
October 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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In diesem Jahr wurden auf der Methodentagung in Salzgitter wieder drei herausragende studentische Arbeiten mit den forsa / Paul Lazarsfeld-Stipendien ausgezeichnet. Die prämierten Masterarbeiten überzeugten nicht nur methodisch, sondern setzten auch inhaltlich Maßstäbe.
Die Stipediatinnen waren:
September 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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The newly elected young scholar representatives of the @dgps.bsky.social met up to start their work. 💪
For the #mediapsych division @klingelhoefer.bsky.social and @janadreston.bsky.social will be representing young scholars wishes and needs and bring their perspective into the association. 📢
In den letzten Wochen haben viele Fachgruppen der @dgps.bsky.social ihre Jungmitglieder-Vertreter:innen in den Fachgruppenleitungen gewählt. 🗳✨
Wir haben diesen Anlass genutzt, um uns zu vernetzen, Ideen auszutauschen und spannende neue Angebote für unsere Jungmitglieder zu planen. 🚀🤝
September 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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"The TikTok deal puts even more media in the hands of the super-rich." Not sure how small d democracy can survive if there is no space left for dissent and legitimate grievances? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The TikTok deal puts even more media in the hands of the super-rich | Margaret Sullivan
Trump is clearing the way for US investors to control a wildly popular platform where millions get their news
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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💡Pub alert 💡

Why do users stop a media activity?
Today I presented "101 reasons to stop: A systematic review of media cues for disengagement" at #CHIGreece2025 🏖️

The full paper - the 3rd of my PhD thesis - is now available #openaccess at
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Summary below ⬇️
September 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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First up in the @icamobile.bsky.social student and early career scholar event calendar is How to Submit to the Mobile Communication Division, featuring International Liaison @luytioco.bsky.social and former chair Keri Stephens. Details here:
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Another year, another full slate of @icamobile.bsky.social student and early career scholar events! Here are the details:
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Out now in @mediapsychmep.bsky.social, Dave DeAndrea and I clarify and test identity shift theory. Our findings show the importance of identification with claim and suggest a possible reorientation of the theory toward biased scanning:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Morgenstund hat die 18. Folge Juckt?! im Mund: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdg9YeA4/

Heute geht’s um Migration und inwiefern PolitikerInnen der “Mitte” zur Stimmungsmache beitragen.
TikTok - Make Your Day
vm.tiktok.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Excited to be at #MePsy25 in Duisburg and proud to be part of five presentations. I will be presenting research on digital disconnection against procrastination tomorrow and @dougaparry.bsky.social and I will host the debate club on Friday. Looking forward to meet everyone at the conference.
September 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Come and join our debate at Media Psych on Friday - it'll be fun!
Debate Club: We Don’t Need Digital Traces of Time Spent on Digital Media

@klingelhoefer.bsky.social

We will debate the role, importance, shortcomings, & relative value of this data to prompt critical reflection.

This debate draws on our preprint

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

📆 12.09, 09h00, LX1205
September 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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From r/nosurf to #digitaldetox: A computational analysis of discourses of technology resistance and digital well-being

@chrdrn.bsky.social, @klingelhoefer.bsky.social, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social

We will present preliminary results from our analysis of Twitter & Reddit data.

📆 11.09, 16h15, LK051
September 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Excited to be attending @mepsy.bsky.social #MePsy25 for the first time, this week!

I’ll be sharing work in progress & findings from 3 projects on:

(1) online risks and digital literacy (interviews)
(2) digital disconnection discourses (NLP)
(3) digital trace data methods (position)

⬇️ for details:
September 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other.
wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...
August 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Part 2:
September 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM