Why?🧐
Digital & comp tools are central to our field, but scattered. MRR gives them a home - supporting transparency, reuse & recognition.🏠🤝
✍🏻 Editor @dscheykopp.bsky.social
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Why?🧐
Digital & comp tools are central to our field, but scattered. MRR gives them a home - supporting transparency, reuse & recognition.🏠🤝
✍🏻 Editor @dscheykopp.bsky.social
Learn more here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...
💡Zheng Yang, Yuanting Huang, Mingyue Zhu, & Xi Lu show that the same platform produces different political engagement depending on the terminal used (📱 WeChat Mini Program, 📲 app, 🌐 mobile web, 🖥️ PC).
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💡Zheng Yang, Yuanting Huang, Mingyue Zhu, & Xi Lu show that the same platform produces different political engagement depending on the terminal used (📱 WeChat Mini Program, 📲 app, 🌐 mobile web, 🖥️ PC).
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Focus groups by @nicoledalmer.bsky.social, Stephen Katz, @socbarb.bsky.social & Kirsten L. Ellison show that older adults are capable, creative, and tech-savvy on their own terms.💡
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Focus groups by @nicoledalmer.bsky.social, Stephen Katz, @socbarb.bsky.social & Kirsten L. Ellison show that older adults are capable, creative, and tech-savvy on their own terms.💡
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📱👥 @anishaarenz.bsky.social & @annastockmann.bsky.social examine what triggers phone use while with others.
💡 Across 829 interactions, co-present use rose when others were on their phones or notifications appeared.
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📱👥 @anishaarenz.bsky.social & @annastockmann.bsky.social examine what triggers phone use while with others.
💡 Across 829 interactions, co-present use rose when others were on their phones or notifications appeared.
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Findings:
Nomophobia → self-control ⬇️ → academic achievement 📉
Nomophobia → self-esteem ⬇️ → mental health 💔
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Findings:
Nomophobia → self-control ⬇️ → academic achievement 📉
Nomophobia → self-esteem ⬇️ → mental health 💔
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Heikki Jungman, @t0mm7.bsky.social, Niklas Nylund & @sotamaa.bsky.social revisit the N-Gage’s sideways-calling feature.
💡 The article shows how cultural misalignment, not tech flaws, doomed it.
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Heikki Jungman, @t0mm7.bsky.social, Niklas Nylund & @sotamaa.bsky.social revisit the N-Gage’s sideways-calling feature.
💡 The article shows how cultural misalignment, not tech flaws, doomed it.
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💔 Key finding: Being phubbed threatens social needs, lowers mood, and reduces intention to interact.
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💔 Key finding: Being phubbed threatens social needs, lowers mood, and reduces intention to interact.
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Yongjian Li & Tonny Krijnen show how Chinese older seasonal migrants use Douyin (TikTok) to create hybrid digital–physical spaces and reimagine mobility.
💡 Their vlogs challenge ageist views with vitality and agency.
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Yongjian Li & Tonny Krijnen show how Chinese older seasonal migrants use Douyin (TikTok) to create hybrid digital–physical spaces and reimagine mobility.
💡 Their vlogs challenge ageist views with vitality and agency.
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💡 The study reframes digital inclusion through relational digital agency, highlighting choice, limits, and meaning in connection and disconnection.
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💡 The study reframes digital inclusion through relational digital agency, highlighting choice, limits, and meaning in connection and disconnection.
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📈 Key finding: For U.S. youth, reflective disengagement eases habitual checking stress 🧘- but can heighten it for compulsive checkers. 😣
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📈 Key finding: For U.S. youth, reflective disengagement eases habitual checking stress 🧘- but can heighten it for compulsive checkers. 😣
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A new study by Morley Weston, Daniel Vogler, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Pascal Jürgens & Mark Eisenegger finds:
⏰ Peaks on voting day
📉 Dips on weekends
📱 Spikes at first unlock
🔗 Boosts by social apps
#OpenAccess
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A new study by Morley Weston, Daniel Vogler, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Pascal Jürgens & Mark Eisenegger finds:
⏰ Peaks on voting day
📉 Dips on weekends
📱 Spikes at first unlock
🔗 Boosts by social apps
#OpenAccess
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kvgaever.bsky.social, daviddeseg.bsky.social, smurphee.bsky.social & Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele show how smartphone email, chat, work app & social media use shape time pressure and task juggling.
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kvgaever.bsky.social, daviddeseg.bsky.social, smurphee.bsky.social & Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele show how smartphone email, chat, work app & social media use shape time pressure and task juggling.
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Debjani Chakraborty & Chhavi Garg explore how older users navigate tech amid linguistic, social, and generational barriers—revealing how age, family, and culture shape digital life.
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Debjani Chakraborty & Chhavi Garg explore how older users navigate tech amid linguistic, social, and generational barriers—revealing how age, family, and culture shape digital life.
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This study by @sarahlutz.bsky.social, Frank Schneider, Annabell Halfmann, @annafreytag.bsky.social & Dorothée Hefner shows how constant availability on messenger apps affects well-being. 🧘♀️
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This study by @sarahlutz.bsky.social, Frank Schneider, Annabell Halfmann, @annafreytag.bsky.social & Dorothée Hefner shows how constant availability on messenger apps affects well-being. 🧘♀️
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Pei Shao’s study shows how families governed kids’ phone use, reshaping household space, family roles, and parenting under state oversight.
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Pei Shao’s study shows how families governed kids’ phone use, reshaping household space, family roles, and parenting under state oversight.
Read it here 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Messaging Applications & Global Cultures of Mobility
How do chat apps (WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE & more) shape mobility, politics, resistance & everyday life worldwide?
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 1, 2025
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Messaging Applications & Global Cultures of Mobility
How do chat apps (WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE & more) shape mobility, politics, resistance & everyday life worldwide?
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 1, 2025
🔗 Full CfP: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mes...
chaficnajem.bsky.social shows how inmates use illicit tech to reclaim mobility, share realities, & resist confinement - showing the power & limits of digital connectivity.
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chaficnajem.bsky.social shows how inmates use illicit tech to reclaim mobility, share realities, & resist confinement - showing the power & limits of digital connectivity.
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Simone Carlo & Francesco Diodati show how seniors in Italy’s first COVID-19 “Red Zone” tactically resist, adapt & strategize around mobile use—shaped by culture, ties & digital-first services.
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Simone Carlo & Francesco Diodati show how seniors in Italy’s first COVID-19 “Red Zone” tactically resist, adapt & strategize around mobile use—shaped by culture, ties & digital-first services.
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We're excited to share our latest book review of “Wi-Fi”
✍️ by Thomas Julian, Wilken Rowan & Rennie Ellie
🧐 Reviewed by @shujun-liu.bsky.social
🔗 Read the full review here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We're excited to share our latest book review of “Wi-Fi”
✍️ by Thomas Julian, Wilken Rowan & Rennie Ellie
🧐 Reviewed by @shujun-liu.bsky.social
🔗 Read the full review here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
They propose 5 axioms linking media affordances with moral values—paving the way for mobile media studies beyond mobile media.
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They propose 5 axioms linking media affordances with moral values—paving the way for mobile media studies beyond mobile media.
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How is AI reshaping mobile practices & everyday mobility?
🗓️ Deadline: Oct 31, 2025
👥 Eds: Yifan Xu & @asouzaesilva.bsky.social
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How is AI reshaping mobile practices & everyday mobility?
🗓️ Deadline: Oct 31, 2025
👥 Eds: Yifan Xu & @asouzaesilva.bsky.social
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“The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology”
✍️ by D. Miller, L. Abed Rabho, P. Awondo, M. de Vries, M. Duque, P. Garvey, L. Haapio-Kirk, C. Hawkins, A. Otaegui, S. Walton & X. Wang
🧐 review by Yongjian Li
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“The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology”
✍️ by D. Miller, L. Abed Rabho, P. Awondo, M. de Vries, M. Duque, P. Garvey, L. Haapio-Kirk, C. Hawkins, A. Otaegui, S. Walton & X. Wang
🧐 review by Yongjian Li
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We're excited to share our latest book review of:
"The Psychology of Phubbing (Springer Briefs in Psychology)"
✍️ by Yeslam Al-Saggaf
🧐 reviewed by Sangita Goswami
🔗 Read the full review here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We're excited to share our latest book review of:
"The Psychology of Phubbing (Springer Briefs in Psychology)"
✍️ by Yeslam Al-Saggaf
🧐 reviewed by Sangita Goswami
🔗 Read the full review here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Erika Polson explores how digital nomads create a global sense of work—blending place, mobility & digital tools into a connected lifestyle.
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Erika Polson explores how digital nomads create a global sense of work—blending place, mobility & digital tools into a connected lifestyle.
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New research by Leopoldina Fortunati, Manuela Farinosi & Federico de Luca finds emotional discomfort & generational divides still shape mobile use.
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New research by Leopoldina Fortunati, Manuela Farinosi & Federico de Luca finds emotional discomfort & generational divides still shape mobile use.
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