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...

👀 Excited to read! academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

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Yayayay @aliciaernst.bsky.social @annastockmann.bsky.social! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

✨ Scholar in the Spotlight is here! Meet Rich Ling - our very first featured scholar! Discover his insights and what makes his tick! Here's the fun part: each scholar picks the next one to spotlight. Who will Rich choose? 👀 Read the full interview 👉 www.icamobile.org/spotlight-ri... #ICAMobile

An awesome slate of folks elected for @icamobile.bsky.social - and tied for top voter turnout to boot! Congrats to @lisemarienassen.bsky.social @aliciagilbert.bsky.social + Deepti Apte 🎉

I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social. We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits. tiu.nu/22989

📱🏡 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...

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/...

Proud to share our new paper on how patterns of mobile communication relate to feeling rushed. We combined experience sampling and smartphone log data, capturing frequency, duration, fragmentation, and notifications across four app categories, to examine direct and indirect links via task juggling.

📱👵🏽 How do older adults in rural Punjab engage with—or resist—mobile media? 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. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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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/...

The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is seeking volunteers to be mentors at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Faculty from all ranks are welcome. CAT/Mobile membership is not required, but faculty should be aligned. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

Coming up next week! @icamobile.bsky.social @icasecac.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social

Applying Gibson's theory of affordances to sports? www.nytimes.com/athletic/666...

Spotted in the wild 👀

The #ica26 preconference Affecting myself?! Exploring self & feedback effects in digital communication aims at bringing together scholars to discuss how communicators are shaped by messages & feedback. Extended abstracts due Jan 30, 2026. www.medienstruktur.ifp.uni-mainz.de/affecting-my...

Cancel the rest of the course: the grad students of Mobile Communication, Self, and Society already understand mobile communication better than me 🎨

Nail 🤝 head My favorite: AI-generated emails sent to university listservs by folks making more than me 👏 hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

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:

Another year, another full slate of @icamobile.bsky.social student and early career scholar events! Here are the details:

Thanks to @aliciagilbert.bsky.social for presenting this project at #mepsy25! To use a metaphor completely unrelated to where I was during the presentation, it's like the Bryce Canyon hoodoos: possibly about to topple at any moment, but impeccably shaped over time to be stunning

Honored to be a part of Big Tech's training data /s www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

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....

You heard it here first (maybe): The CAT/Mobile doctoral consortium will officially be happening again at #ica26 in Cape Town! Are you dissertating? Consider applying for mentorship from top scholars in comm tech / mobile.

📲 Always feel pressured to be online? 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. 🧘‍♀️ 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We are currently accepting extended abstracts and workshop proposals for the #ICA2026 Mobile Preconference! We invite submissions across diverse disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical backgrounds! Deadline is 30th January 2026, and the full call can be found here: www.icamobile.org/calls

There are a BUNCH of awesome candidates up for election in @icamobile.bsky.social this year. Cast your vote before October 21st! www.icahdq.org/page/Electio...

My latest, Digital Carceral Mobilities, is out now with @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1177/2050...

Proponents for smartphone bans in classrooms often cite negative impacts of the devices' presence on cognition and conversation. But these effects have not replicated often in recent years, perhaps as smartphone norms have changed.

🍊 Juicy read for mobile and disconnection scholars! Awesome approach to theory at topical but also institutional intersections. And exciting to see our dis/collective in this space name-dropped!

Now published, the #DECIDEFramework in #AMPPS. Here we provide a suite of resources to support researchers with ethical considerations in digital behavioural research. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

At this year’s preconference, @asouzaesilva.bsky.social launched the History of Mobile Communication project—documenting the field’s evolution through interviews with pioneering researchers from the 1990s and early 2000s. 🎙️📱 New episodes now live at www.icamobile.org/history-proj.... Check them out!