Our website has launched! Take a look to learn about the project, the consortium, and future updates!

So proud of you, @lisemarienassen.bsky.social! You earned every bit of your success! 🚀

On World Mental Health Day we’re launching PROMISE, a research project exploring youth well-being and social media policies. We aim to understand how these policies affect young people online and develop data-driven recommendations to support their well-being.

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

📢 Publication 📢 @kathrinkarsay.bsky.social, Marina F. Thomas, & Jörg Matthes tested if exposure to athletic or hypermuscular fitspiration content can affect women's body satisfaction, related intentions, & norms, finding only very limited effects of fitspiration imagery. 👉🏼 doi.org/10.1037/ppm0...

We close the #MobileComm business meeting with a wonderful celebration of our beloved outgoing Chair, Mariek, who has truly contributed to a diverse, kind, and inclusive community. Wait... is that a vintage Nokia?! #ICA25

Looking back, I had the best time in Columbus during my research stay at The Ohio State University. 🤩 I'm very grateful for the inspiring experience, so a big thank you to @joebayer.bsky.social, The Ohio State University School of Communication, @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social!

Hi #ICA25 students & early-career scholars! 🎓 We've built a "Student Track" just for you! Find it in the ICA app: Schedule -> More Filters -> Tags -> Student Track. From your friends at the Student and Early Career Advisory Committee (SECAC), we can't wait to see you there!

And then — it’s time for our much-awaited TOP PAPERS session! 🏆 Join us at 3PM in Centennial H (Regency 3), followed by our annual business meeting. We’d love to see you there! #ICA25 #MobileComm

Es hat uns besonders gefreut mit der Redaktion über unsere Forschung zu sprechen!

Our AWARE research project now has a website: 🔗 www.aware-project.com AWARE researches how young people perceive and engage with mental health issues in everyday life & on social media. Find out more about the research, the team, and the latest updates on our website.

Unser Forschungsprojekt AWARE hat jetzt eine Website: 🔗 www.aware-project.com AWARE erforscht, wie Jugendliche Themen der psychischen Gesundheit im Alltag & auf Social Media wahrnehmen und sich damit auseinandersetzen. Mehr zur Forschung, dem Team und den neuesten Updates auf unserer Website.

Im FÄKT-Interview sprechen wir, @raffaelheiss.bsky.social , @elenaengel.bsky.social, Sascha Gell und ich, über das Austrian Science Fund FWF-Projekt zu Health Influencern in Social Media. Hier zur Langversion (7 Minuten) auf YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MshL...

We’re standing up for science ! 🤝 On March 7 at 1 pm, the #MarchforScience will start in front of the University of Vienna - an initiative of scientists raising their voices worldwide for free science. The University of Vienna shares this important cause.‼️🏛️ #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

NEW: Super cool piece led by Dr Brooke Nickel in JAMA Network Open! I’m usually researching the other side - how to use social media for good health communication, so it was interesting to see how it can also amplify misleading health claims and fuel overdiagnosis. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Great defense, great scholar, great soon-to-be-colleague! Congratulations, Sophie!

Studying Flemish adolescents' use of disconnection eg tools screentime tracker, @lisemarienassen.bsky.social @kathrinkarsay.bsky.social @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social @laraschreurs.bsky.social find it shaped by lived experiences including developmental stages, gender roles & well-being bit.ly/3QiByt7

Happy to announce the publication of "The Mobile Media Debate: Challenging Viewpoints Across Epistemologies," co-edited by @tvpape.bsky.social and myself! The book features 10 debates about mobile media and society at the micro, meso, and macro levels. (1/6)

Happy to have presented the validation process of the Motivations for Social Media Disconnection (MSMD) scale in a great #Etmaal2025 disconnection & well-being panel! Also a shoutout to my co-authors Annabell Halfmann & @kathrinkarsay.bsky.social!