Fellow academics: how long do you wait before contacting the Editorial Team about the manuscript that has been 'with Editor' for... a while? I've heard some random figures from colleagues (e.g., reach out if nothing happens after three months), but was wondering if you had any reasons why.

➡️ Next up: the #ICA_Mobile Information Sessions! A great chance to learn 📖 and ask questions 🙋 about our division. Join us on 7 + 8 April! Here's the link: tinyurl.com/icamobileevent (password: ICAMOBILE)

Leftovers from the final for Social Media and Interpersonal Relationships 🍩 Death by Donutz doesn't miss!

📢 ICA 2026 Preconference: “Affecting myself?!” Join us in Cape Town to explore self- & feedback effects in digital communication! 🧠 Posters, discussions & networking 🗓️ More info: medienstruktur.ifp.uni-mainz.de/affecting-my... #ICA26 #CommunicationResearch #DigitalMedia

☎️ Calling student and early career scholars in @icamobile.bsky.social! Please consider applying to our dissertation award (by *31 March) + emerging scholar grant (by 4 May) ✍️ Details below! www.icamobile.org/topdissertat... www.icamobile.org/emergingscho...

@rzhprfshr.bsky.social is our March 2026 scholar in the spotlight! She is a PhD student working closely with @joebayer.bsky.social and Dr Mimi Brinberg in understanding how everyday mobile media use affects relationships. See our full interview with Razieh here! www.icamobile.org/scholar-razieh

Really thought-provoking piece from Jana Dombrowski and @sabinetrepte.bsky.social! ⏳ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Glad to hear there is an ICA AI task force Less glad to hear it was introduced by assuming AI is "helpful" and "impossible to prevent" link.icahdq.org/communities/...

Part 2 of the Just AI series: thanks to fellow #AIvegan @karenhao.bsky.social for her insight, including her answer to the signed question card below!

#spsp2026 FoMO! Bummed to miss this stacked panel, not to mention the wings at the @chicagodiner.bsky.social

#FirstMonday to stop new issu3s after it's May 2026. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

📵📱 CfP — Special Issue: "Mobile Disconnection" Editors: @mqrmobile.bsky.social, Mora Matassi & @trinesy.bsky.social 📅 Abstracts due: July 31, 2026 🔗 Full CfP: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

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Please consider submitting to our special issue on mobile disconnection in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social! Check out the call for papers below, with extended abstracts due on 31 July 2026. With Mora Matassi and @trinesy.bsky.social 📴📵🪩 journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

🍎 On Tuesday my students configured a Canvas discussion board based on @mcewan.bsky.social's principles and characteristics of online communities, and on Thursday they enacted it successfully! Only one thread dedicated to complaining about the midterm 😌

🚨 It's time again for @icamobile.bsky.social's Early Career Colloquium! 🎤 Want to briefly + casually present to early career scholars about a mobile comm project you're working on (any stage)? 📊 Fill this out before 17 February! ✍️ @icasecac.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social forms.gle/pTYBKGZRyWtz...

Hey #commsky, we’re hosting a workshop soon for early career and student researchers: 25 February 2026 | 10:00–11:30 CET | Zoom Register now to join the discussion. cts.ku.dk/projects/to-...

Exciting news for Mobile Communication Division members attending the @icahdq.bsky.social Annual Conference in Cape Town in June! We are offering division swag. More reasons to come join us later this year at the #ICAMobile reception! #ICA2026

🎉 New paper led by the indomitable Lisa Rhee! 💃 We explore social app ecologies (especially social media + messaging) in a deep dataset (feat GPS) 🛰️ Along with @huyentkle.bsky.social @joebayer.bsky.social and more of the Project mCog squad 🦥 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 It's time again for @icamobile.bsky.social's Early Career Colloquium! 🎤 Want to briefly + casually present to early career scholars about a mobile comm project you're working on (any stage)? 📊 Fill this out before 17 February! ✍️ @icasecac.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social forms.gle/pTYBKGZRyWtz...

@icamobile.bsky.social's Senior Scholar Support is a wrap! 🍎 Great conversations between early and late career folks 🎉 @rzhprfshr.bsky.social et al @icasecac.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social

Enjoyed @merbroussard.bsky.social kicking off our Just AI series last night!

Fun talk for the home crowd today! 🦫

Big Aussie Open for comm tech folks! www.nytimes.com/athletic/700... www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...

This... www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

This is a reminder that the #ICA2026 Mobile Preconference submission deadline is coming up next week! Do consider sending in your workshop proposals and extended abstracts before the deadline! The full call can be found here: www.icamobile.org/calls

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Our union hosted a showing of this movie at the local indie. I was teaching, but "enjoyed" the trailer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYk...

hey #mobilecomm community @icamobile.bsky.social For a new exhibition on 100 yrs of mobile telephony, the Communication Museum in Frankfurt am Main prepared a website w many cool historic photos. 🤳 They also discuss a phoneless future 🤫 www.digitales-museum-fuer-kommunikation.de/expotizer-un...

Yay Mora! And a deserved shout-out of one of @rachelplotnick.bsky.social's excellent books!

For all early career scholars: Our ECR @mqrmobile.bsky.social is running a senior scholar support program. If you are interested in getting a senior scholar to provide feedback, please sign up through the interest form by 19 January!

Looking forward to this panel next week!

🌍📱 Global intimacies & Mobile Comm Theorizing @luytioco.bsky.social and Jason Cabañes argue for non-Western and Global South theory-building in mobile media research. 💡 A must-read for scholars seeking inclusive, contextualized approaches to mobile communication. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

☎️ Calling all early career scholars! Want to talk casually with an @icamobile.bsky.social senior scholar about a mobile comm project you're working on? Fill out this form by 19 January + we'll match you with a senior scholar to provide feedback: forms.gle/hdhayc34dXEb...

"Algorithms complicate human agency, but some people may want to spend their golden years on their phone consuming an endless scroll of entertainment. Who’s to judge?" ...🙋? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

For almost a third of the papers that I reviewed this year, I contacted the editor due to concern that the paper (or another review) was partly generated by AI. I like reviewing, but it feels increasingly soul-sucking.

👵📱👴 The full Special Issue “Mobile Communication and Later Life: From Theories to Empirical Frescoes”, including the editorial by @mireiafa.bsky.social & @sakaritaipale.bsky.social is now online! ✨📖 👉 Editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 👉 TOC: journals.sagepub.com/toc/mmca/14/...

I haven't felt this seen in a while. Highly recommended! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

🏰 Fun times with student and early career scholars in the castle of digital disconnection and mobile media! Drawing: @vic-kra.bsky.social @icamobile.bsky.social @icasecac.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social

⏳ Coming up soon! Looking forward to meeting, greeting, and discussing 🙂

We will have an amazing mid-year meet & greet event next week. Mark your calendars and we hope to see you there! #mobilecomm toward #ICA2026

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

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The @icamobile.bsky.social student + early career scholar events continue! Next up: Mid-Year Meet & Greet + Topical Discussion on Mobile Disconnection (...and Review Procrastination) feat Digitox's Victoria Kratel @vic-kra.bsky.social. Details below @icasecac.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social

📣 Digital Research Community! The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include. Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We are looking for folks to help beta test our new mobile apps! This is your chance to do the EMA study you've been dreaming up for free! You can reach out to me on Bluesky or email at [email protected] if you're interested!

Does anyone know a good, step-by-step introduction to Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling? I’m looking for easy intros, YouTube videos or other resources beyond the classic textbook style for my Master’s-level students. Thanks! 😊 #SEM #multilevel #statistics #ICA @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social

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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

🎉 📣 Out now in Communication Research! 📣 🎉 What makes us stop using #media in a specific situation? A new study by my great co-author @annastockmann.bsky.social and me examines situational #disengagement from #TikTok and #Instagram. 📱 🔚 Find the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...