Monday next week, 5 pm, I’ll deliver my UZH inaugural lecture. Title: „Ban, improve, or ignore? Social Media Regulation from a Communication Research Perspective“ The talk is open to the public: you can join either on-site or via live-stream. Details, see: www.uzh.ch/de/events/ag...

🎉 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....

Our recent #disconnection study with @klingelhoefer.bsky.social & @adrianmeier.bsky.social 😊

Digital media breaks can improve well-being: New study finds short-term mood benefits from intentional digital disconnection – while showing that external pressure to unplug can backfire 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/digital-media…#DigitalDisconnectiono#DigitalDetoxo#SocialMediai#offlinene

Professor @orbenamy.bsky.social from @mrccbu.bsky.social will co-lead the world’s first major trial to test whether reducing social media use can improve teen mental health. Find out more about the IRL Trial: https://bit.ly/4a2FZmB #socialmedia #research

It’s @icahdq.bsky.social notification day #ica26 Remember: we all get rejected, junior and senior scholars, it’s not personal. But it stings. Congratulations to all who made it. Keep up the work, also if rejected 💪🏽

Mora Matassi is January's scholar in the spotlight! She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Argentina. You can view the full interview with Mora through this link: www.icamobile.org/scholar-mora

Looking forward to this panel next week!

Exciting times ahead! In June, our newly elected officers @lisemarienassen.bsky.social, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social, and @deeptiapte.bsky.social will officially step into their roles to take #ICAMobile forward. We look forward to introducing them at the #ICA26 Business Meeting. Stay tuned!

Iran protests latest: Tehran threatens protesters with death penalty as casualties climb

☎️ 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...

Was really exciting for me to sit down with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and discuss my research on her Podcast, Power User! I’ve followed her social media coverage for a long time. Highly recommend watching the full YouTube version below (has visuals from the relevant paper): youtu.be/K-0z0j0QvPI?...

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The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.

Frauen promovieren fast genauso häufig wie Männer – doch zur Professur gelangen sie deutlich seltener. Für @bettikohlrausch.bsky.social, Direktorin des WSI, ist klar: Trotz Maßnahmen zur Förderung von Frauen behindert das Wissenschaftssystem die Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten von Frauen ganz offensichtlich.

Are you considering joining our winter writing school in Duisburg but unsure about funding? We (@mepsy.bsky.social) are offering two 150€ scholarships that cover accomodation for the writing school. Apply now via the form (Deadline is the 15th of December)!

Preprint⚠️ Scrolling and swiping tend to be more interesting than studying or working, leading to procrastination. Can we do something about that? We investigated whether temporary deliberate non-use of digital technologies (digital disconnection) is effective as a strategy against procrastination.

Digital Disconnection as a Self-Regulatory Strategy Against Procrastination: https://osf.io/3j64v

Hello Bluesky👋 This is our first post as the IKMZ Media Psychology & Methods division. Since it’s Spotify Wrapped season, we thought we’d start with a game: Can you guess the age Spotify gave to our members? 🎧🤔 Our Team will reply in the comments ⬇️ P.S. That’s us at our traditional team-fondue 🫕�

Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨 S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria. S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse. Thread below... 🧵

Need to work on your first paper, a conference paper, or your dissertation? Join us for the first young scholar MePsy & RezFo Winter Writing School in Duisburg to work with others and improve your writing skills. Sign up below. We're excited to write with you!

🚨 Preprint alert: Do 1) smartphone event log data access and 2) the Experience Sampling Method cause reactivity effects in studies? @dougaparry.bsky.social, @klingelhoefer.bsky.social, and I investigated this very question using data from 815 German Android users. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Abstract mal anders: In einem neuen Video der @unimainz.bsky.social gebe ich einen Einblick in unsere neue Studie zu #Disconnection und #Wohlbefinden #sciencecomm #wisskomm #digitalwellbeing #tiktok www.tiktok.com/@unimainz/vi...

📬 Pub alert Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*? Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋 @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social Out now in Communication Research doi.org/10.1177/0093...

Our new study on the everyday effects of digital disconnection on well-being is finally out! 🎉

NEW PREPRINT 💡 Together with @dougaparry.bsky.social, I just published a new preprint experimentally examining how specific normative cues on social media shape self-disclosure using an innovative simulation approach. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... Read on for more information (1/9) 👇

Had fun presenting on my forthcoming work about social media habits and addiction at the USC Neely Center and Addiction Sciences Institute the other week...A recording is now available on YouTube! Link below goes to my intro and ~15min talk; Q&A is at the end! youtu.be/QT6G0PpvQhg?...

Ever found yourself scrolling on your phone in the middle of a conversation?📱👥Curious about why this happens, @annastockmann.bsky.social and I explored the situational drivers of co-present phone use in our new🔓#OpenAccess paper, just published in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social🎉 (1/6)

@klingelhoefer.bsky.social is a PhD candidate and researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focuses on digital disconnection, mental heatlh, digital self-regulation, technology use at work, and intensive longitudinal methods.

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

@janadreston.bsky.social is a PhD student at @unidue.bsky.social. Her research focuses on political and scientific communication on social media. She analyses the impact of information processing on knowledge and participation.

📱🏡 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/...

Very cool panel! Looking forward to attending.

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/...

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

In diesem Jahr wurden auf der Methodentagung in Salzgitter wieder drei herausragende studentische Arbeiten mit den forsa / Paul Lazarsfeld-Stipendien ausgezeichnet. Die prämierten Masterarbeiten überzeugten nicht nur methodisch, sondern setzten auch inhaltlich Maßstäbe. Die Stipediatinnen waren:

The newly elected young scholar representatives of the @dgps.bsky.social met up to start their work. 💪 For the #mediapsych division @klingelhoefer.bsky.social and @janadreston.bsky.social will be representing young scholars wishes and needs and bring their perspective into the association. 📢

"The TikTok deal puts even more media in the hands of the super-rich." Not sure how small d democracy can survive if there is no space left for dissent and legitimate grievances? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

💡Pub alert 💡 Why do users stop a media activity? Today I presented "101 reasons to stop: A systematic review of media cues for disengagement" at #CHIGreece2025 🏖️ The full paper - the 3rd of my PhD thesis - is now available #openaccess at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Summary below ⬇️

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:

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....

Morgenstund hat die 18. Folge Juckt?! im Mund: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdg9YeA4/ Heute geht’s um Migration und inwiefern PolitikerInnen der “Mitte” zur Stimmungsmache beitragen.

Excited to be at #MePsy25 in Duisburg and proud to be part of five presentations. I will be presenting research on digital disconnection against procrastination tomorrow and @dougaparry.bsky.social and I will host the debate club on Friday. Looking forward to meet everyone at the conference.

Come and join our debate at Media Psych on Friday - it'll be fun!

From r/nosurf to #digitaldetox: A computational analysis of discourses of technology resistance and digital well-being @chrdrn.bsky.social, @klingelhoefer.bsky.social, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social We will present preliminary results from our analysis of Twitter & Reddit data. 📆 11.09, 16h15, LK051

Excited to be attending @mepsy.bsky.social #MePsy25 for the first time, this week! I’ll be sharing work in progress & findings from 3 projects on: (1) online risks and digital literacy (interviews) (2) digital disconnection discourses (NLP) (3) digital trace data methods (position) ⬇️ for details:

Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other. wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...