A belated 😕 www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

I'll add that this was a lovely final act of my tenure as the Student + Early Career rep for @icamobile.bsky.social 🎉 Excited to hand the torch off to @aliciagilbert.bsky.social!

Taking stock: Twofer presentations ✅ Mobile early career lunch ✅ #RunningWithPresidents ✅ Slightly fewer than usual but still way too many panels ✅ Ideally a single reception ❌ (😾) Scheduled snacks ✅✅✅ Otherwise in the hot tub ❌ (but we made do!) Thanks #ica26!

It’s a wrap Last #ica26 #RunningWithPresidents was a gem. No ☀️ but plenty of #CapeTown beauty, new participants and extended 8k edition. Thanks to all who joined one or more mornings. Special shoutout to @dscheykopp.bsky.social for route plotting and 5 morning #streak 💪🏽 🏃🏼 ❤️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Day 4 of #ica26, day 4 of #RunningWithPresidents, missing @claesdevreese.bsky.social Beautiful sunrise and chill run with friendly people 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️. Join us for last edition tomorrow, 730 ifo The Cullinan - this time longer stretch down to Green Point and park (around 8k)

Excited do present a "twofer" tomorrow! 🐫

🦆 Great conversation and wildlife for the @icamobile.bsky.social Student and Early Career Lunch at a scenic nearby WWII Memorial!

If you are an early career scholar at #ICA2026, do also consider joining the Student and Early Career Lunch at 12pm. We will meet around the Bartolomeu Dias Statue before heading out to a Woolworth's close by! Drop our SECR @mqrmobile.bsky.social a note if you have difficulties finding the location!

Awesome windy sunshine opening of #RunningWithPresidents #ica26 Super nice route plotted by @dscheykopp.bsky.social with 🌊 ⛰️ 🏙️ #capetown There will be an edition daily 07:30 🕢 #sharingiscaring. Join us. All welcome

Midway through the preconference after 4 wonderful sessions. Weather is perfect, everyone is fed, and we are starting the second half of the day with a Mobile Methods Workshop #ICA2026

🏃‍♂️ #ICA26 #RunningWithPresidents Join us Thursday, June 4, at 7:30 AM for an easy 5.5 km social run to Mouille Point Beach and back, with great ocean views along the way. 📍 Meet across from the Westin, in front of Southern Sun The Cullinan. Easy pace, ~40 minutes. All welcome! 🌊☀️

Who knew? The journal "Communication Methods and Measures" does not send papers out for review that have been preprinted? In 2026... Despite @tandfresearch.bsky.social policies to the contrary...

Two more months! ⏳ Feel free to translate any mobile disconnection energy from #ICA26 into a submission 🙂

Annual thread of how to find (and / or avoid!) me at #ICA26 🙃:

Final review session of Media Theory complete, Escape Room style! ⏳ Feat. "Kiss Marry Kill" for affordances and theories (I take full responsibility for any claims made) 💍

Looking forward to seeing folks in a week-ish! 🇿🇦

That's a wrap! 🎁 Conversation was had and turtles were spotted, so the Minicon was a success 🐢 Stay tuned for movement on Mobile Methods! 🏃 Photo credit: some combination of @rzhprfshr.bsky.social @joebayer.bsky.social and Gaby Harari

The ICA Mobile Preconference is days away! Wed June 3 at U of Cape Town with keynotes by Tanja Bosch & @dougaparry.bsky.social, workshops, panels & dinner reception! Full program can be found here: icamobile.org/mobilepreconferences/2026preconfprogram See you there! #ICA2026 #MobileCommunication

And that's a wrap on the Just AI series: I missed this one, but thanks to Alicia Patterson for snagging @bcmerchant.bsky.social's signature to complete my trilogy! ✨

What happens when women are asked to reimagine life with a smartphone? 📱✨ Through a creative inquiry with 20 women (18–29) in Germany & Norway, @vic-kra.bsky.social identifies three utopian themes: 🧍‍♀️ Ideal self, 📱 ideal tech & 🌍 ideal society 🔗 #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Proud of Jillian presenting her work for the undergraduate research symposium! 🥳 Fun time reviewing literature on social media use and delayed gratification... and trying to access NIH data 🤦 @liberalartsosu.bsky.social

📲🤖 From people → data → agents New in our Special Issue on #MobileAI, Scott W. Campbell, mqrmobile.bsky.social‬ & Rich Ling trace the evolution of “individual addressability” in mobile communication. �� https://doi.org/10.1177/2050157926144848439

There is a big difference between "people who are 'scared' of AI and don't want to learn new things" and "people who have deep moral objections to AI's underpinnings, impacts, and the systems of power behind it." It's wild to me that institutions pushing AI adoption don't seem to understand this.

🎉 New at @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social, led by Scott W. Campbell + w Rich Ling! 🪕 We consider how mobile AI could support the individual addressability of data and people (for better + worse) ✨ Thanks to @asouzaesilva.bsky.social + Yifan Xu! doi.org/10.1177/2050...

My PhD student is recruiting participants for his study. Please repost and distribute to your networks if you have a chance!

Really proud to share that my first book will be out in August. "Screen Time and the Impossibility of Contemporary Parenting" examines popular, everyday talk about young children and screen media.

See y'all next week! 📴

Join the @icamobile.bsky.social's Student + Early Career Scholar Lunch at #ICA26! On Saturday at 12pm (6 June), we'll meet at the Bartolomeu Dias statue 🗽, stop for food at Woolworth's 🍽️ + chat at a nearby fountain ⛲ @icahdq.bsky.social @icasecac.bsky.social

The ICA Mobile Communication Division is accepting nominations & self-nominations for Vice-Chair! Lead the future of the division and shape the pre-conferences in Bangkok & Chicago and eventually step into the Chair role. Learn more: www.icamobile.org/vice-chair26 #ICA2026

📚📱 New Book Review @ioansu.bsky.social reviews The Mobile Media Debate (eds. @tvpape.bsky.social & @vkarnowski.bsky.social, 2024). The volume challenges simplified claims about mobile media through thesis–antithesis–synthesis debates across individuals, groups, and spaces. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

Are you a Comm scholar and want to push #openscience in our field? The @icahdq.bsky.social committee "Open Access Open Scholarship", which I'm chairing, is currently looking for a new member. Interested? Then reach out and I'm happy to share more information!

On the other hand, when more and more writing is AI slop, quality writing may become more valuable link.icahdq.org/communities/...

Fascinating deep dive into the characteristics of papers and peer reviews at a journal, with a lookback pre-COVID and pre-chatGPT. Papers and reviews showing more signs of AI over time, but also lower writing quality. orgsci.substack.com/p/more-versu... orgsci.substack.com/p/more-versu...

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gearing up for the Mobile Methods Minicon! 📶 Stoked to be part of the organizing team for this Avengers-esque gathering ✊ mobile-methods.github.io/mobile-metho...

Looking forward to these events next week!

This afternoon I took part in a demo of the 'openESM' initiative by @bsiepe.bsky.social hosted by @psychrstats.bsky.social. What a fantastic opportunity for those who are looking to explore or expand their research background with ESM data.

Join our workshop for students/early-career scholars going to #ICA26 organized by @facusuenzo.bsky.social, @ambervdwal.bsky.social, @wendi-li-phd.bsky.social, @mqrmobile.bsky.social, @floprim.bsky.social. 📅 Friday, May 8th ⏰ 8:00 AM EDT | 12:00 PM UCT 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/AryewUXumCsC...

The SECRs from the LGBTQ+; Children, Adolescents and Media; CAT; Mobile Communication; and Philosophy Theory & Critique are organizing an online workshop to help students and ECRs master presentations, network effectively, and confidently navigate the conference. link.icahdq.org/discussion/i...

Interested in intensive longitudinal studies (ESM, EMA, ...)? We will host a GESIS seminar in September that will teach you how to conduct and analyze these studies. Check it out here ⬇️

Meanwhile the ACM Digital Library is creating AI “podcasts” of papers with no author approval that of course contain inaccuracies (including e.g. misgendering authors) I don’t care about copyright. Legal /= ethical & academic institutions are embarrassing themselves www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

Or: Fun Times at a Faculty Meeting

Pregame #ica26 with these @icamobile.bsky.social sponsored events! On 5 + 6 May, we'll chat about ICA et al ☕ Here's the link: tinyurl.com/icamobileevent (pw: ICAMOBILE) On 8 May, there's an event to help students + early-career scholars prepare for ICA. Register here: forms.gle/AryewUXumCsC...

📵 Next month we will host TWO synchronous meetings to review the goals of the mobile disconnection special issue as well as provide a networking space for scholars interested in this area 💬 Please see the “special events” below to register! www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/...

😂😭 technology.oregonstate.edu/services/cha...

🎉 CHI drop! 🎉 @rzhprfshr.bsky.social @joebayer.bsky.social @jmschokkenbroek.bsky.social 👀 dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Really appreciated taking part in a panel for OSU's AI Week on AI refusal in research and teaching! ✨ Thrilled to have joined my color story coordinated, definitely not also my trivia team colleagues ❤️

"low-value tasks" 🤮 www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

The Publication Roller Coaster™️

👇 Cool opportunity for mobile data from @jsradford.bsky.social and Northeastern's National Internet Observatory nationalinternetobservatory.org/researchers.... Of interest to @icamobile.bsky.social 📱 Thanks to @qinli0.bsky.social for sharing! ❤️