Razieh Pourafshari
@rzhprfshr.bsky.social
PhD student in Communication. Studying tech habits and time. The Ohio State University
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STOKED that our paper on smartphone and spatial habits is out in Scientific Reports! 🎉
Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡
Personal thread below!
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Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡
Personal thread below!
rdcu.be/eQ7q0
Smartphone habits are stronger in spaces chosen out of habit
Scientific Reports - Smartphone habits are stronger in spaces chosen out of habit
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November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
STOKED that our paper on smartphone and spatial habits is out in Scientific Reports! 🎉
Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡
Personal thread below!
rdcu.be/eQ7q0
Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡
Personal thread below!
rdcu.be/eQ7q0
The BEST part of my summer! ☀️💙
My academic summer this year: new city, new friends & colleagues, new insights 🌞📚
I visited @joebayer.bsky.social and his lab at The Ohio State University during July. Very grateful for a formative time & all the convos @rzhprfshr.bsky.social @mqrmobile.bsky.social @stephtorrespantoja.bsky.social
I visited @joebayer.bsky.social and his lab at The Ohio State University during July. Very grateful for a formative time & all the convos @rzhprfshr.bsky.social @mqrmobile.bsky.social @stephtorrespantoja.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The BEST part of my summer! ☀️💙
One of the things I keep thinking about—even two months after ICA Mobile Preconference—is our workshop on digital disconnection policies. We had to think about kids’ education, ages, and contexts—and we kept circling back to the role of "teachers" who would actually deliver those policies!
Media literacy is often seen as a key solution to preparing people to navigate a complex media environment. But is it taught equitably? Our new article examines how an Illinois mandate requiring media literacy instruction is being implemented across schools. digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol17/i...
Classroom contexts: Teachers talk teaching media literacy
In this study, we examine the lived experiences of educators who engage with youth through media literacy education. While prior research has examined the efficacy of media literacy education interven...
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August 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
One of the things I keep thinking about—even two months after ICA Mobile Preconference—is our workshop on digital disconnection policies. We had to think about kids’ education, ages, and contexts—and we kept circling back to the role of "teachers" who would actually deliver those policies!
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LOVING @mqrmobile.bsky.social and @joebayer.bsky.social 's Mobile Top Paper on theorizing affordances of connectivity!
@icamobile.bsky.social
@icamobile.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
LOVING @mqrmobile.bsky.social and @joebayer.bsky.social 's Mobile Top Paper on theorizing affordances of connectivity!
@icamobile.bsky.social
@icamobile.bsky.social
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Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE
The four conceptualizations of social connection
Nature Reviews Psychology - The term ‘social connection’ is operationalized differently across disparate strands of research. In this Review, Baek et al. highlight four distinct uses of...
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June 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE
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Excited to share my latest on solitude in @plosone.bsky.social! With Scott Campbell, I leveraged communicate bond belong theory to investigate how different shades of solitude 🚣 balance energy restoration 🔋 and relatedness with others 🫂 for well-being 🙂: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
The tradeoff of solitude? Restoration and relatedness across shades of solitude
Social interaction and solitude entail tradeoffs. Communicate Bond Belong (CBB) theory holds that social interaction can foster relatedness with others at the cost of social energy, whereas solitude c...
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December 5, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Excited to share my latest on solitude in @plosone.bsky.social! With Scott Campbell, I leveraged communicate bond belong theory to investigate how different shades of solitude 🚣 balance energy restoration 🔋 and relatedness with others 🫂 for well-being 🙂: doi.org/10.1371/jour...