When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

🚨 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...

As a fan of this interview series, I was stoked when the @icamobile.bsky.social division approached me to share thoughts and projects for their Feb edition of #ScholarInTheSpotlight 😊

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

☎️ 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...

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

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...

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!

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.

New preprint from our digital disconnection project with @klingelhoefer.bsky.social and @adrianmeier.bsky.social We find that #disconnection can help to reduce #procrastination.

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... 🧵

5️⃣/🔟 In Scientific Reports, 5 of the top 10 most cited articles have an article number of 1. 5️⃣/🔟 In Nature Communications the same: 5 of the top 10 are article 1s. Coincidence? 👇 scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0... I think not.

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...

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

📬 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...

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) 👇

and here we are in 2025, when @economist.com publishes nonsense on AI facereading for evaluating people's hirability -- the lack of historic awareness is staggering

🎉 The PolComm Database Dashboard is live! The database content is now available in an interactive dashboard: a milestone since launching submissions at #ICA25 in Denver. Explore this resource here 👉 politicalcommunication.org/resources/

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?...

🎉 📣 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...

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)

✨ 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

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...

Thank you @overbye.bsky.social — going to Greece to present the paper wasn’t so bad either 👀 Also thanks to my wonderful co-authors @aliciaernst.bsky.social, @rkreling.bsky.social, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social, @mscharkow.bsky.social, @leonardreinecke.bsky.social and Benedikt! More to come soon!

5 years of the digitox seminar series 🥳 It's now practically an institution for those interested in digital disconnection research A must attend in Jan 👇

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

New work from our lab 💕 Finally a paper with all my lab besties

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

💡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 ⬇️

Returned from this year's #MediaPsych25 conference in Duisburg with lots of inspiration, food for thought, & new ideas (note to self: no, you cannot start 2 more projects). Got valuable feedback on my theoretical work on #disengagement - why & how do users stop exposure? @mepsy.bsky.social (1/3)

Doug will present our current project on digital #disconnection discourses at the #MediaPsych25 conference this Thursday! @mepsy.bsky.social @chrdrn.bsky.social @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @dougaparry.bsky.social

🔥Hot off the press: Studie zur Repräsentation weiblicher Forschender in den Medien 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0963... 📰 Inhaltsanalyse: 4.860 Medienartikel 👩‍🔬 Nur 18% der zitierten Expert:innen sind Frauen 📊 Frauenanteil in der Forschung: ca. 31% ➡️ Deutliche Sichtbarkeitslücke für weibliche Forschende

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Guten Morgen, hier ist der zweite Teil Juckt?! zur Studie von @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @aliciagilbert.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social vm.tiktok.com/ZNdqJo91c/ Viel Spaß ☺️

Very cool breakdown of our study on the motivations of everyday digital disconnection in this TikTok Video (in German):

Guten Morgen, die neuste Folge Juckt?! ist online: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdVx1LFP/ Heute geht es um eine Studie von @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @aliciagilbert.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social Der zweite Teil kommt Donnerstag - viel Spaß ☺️

Longitudinal evidence on media entertainment effects, anyone? New paper out w/ @leonardreinecke.bsky.social looking at links between entertainment use and meaning making daily, weekly, & over 6 months. Two studies, 1,872 participants, 15,290 observations. Summary 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0093...

" ...there was 'concerning evidence' that...some providers were 'over-anticipating the eventual needs of regulators about providing personal information for future investigations' and were building tools to enable regulators or law enforcement to retrace actions of people" *surprised Pickachu face*

Age verification laws exploit the moral panic over social media to repackage old censorship tactics under the guise of protecting children. Like book bans, tech ban proponents have performed a lot of concern for children and parents’ ability to control what information they have access to.

@journal-of-comm.bsky.social is currently rolling out a new special issue on #time -- we're really happy to contribute a #multiverse analysis on the role of time specifications in the study of media effects on well-being! @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @chrdrn.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social

Sorry one more thing. The piece closes by saying: “Today’s kids want to spend their childhood in the real world. Let’s give it back to them.”. Is it not possible for the “worlds” to coexist? Can’t we simply advocate for kids spending more time outside without demonising their internet access?

My academic summer this year: new city, new friends & colleagues, new insights 🌞📚 I visited @joebayer.bsky.social and his lab at The Ohio State University during July. Very grateful for a formative time & all the convos @rzhprfshr.bsky.social @mqrmobile.bsky.social @stephtorrespantoja.bsky.social

Missed the #ICA25 Mobile Preconference? Catch the inspiring welcome note by @asouzaesilva.bsky.social, and dive into thought-provoking keynotes from Rich Ling and Lynn Schofield Clark! 🎥 Watch now: icamobile.org/mobilepreconferences/2025 Let’s keep the convo going as we count down to #ICA26! 🚀

Finally :) Preprint of Susanne Baumgartner and my paper Short but still valid: Validating Single-Item Measures for Key Communication Science Constructs for Experience Sampling Research. In a 5-Study procedure, we assess the validity of in total 21 constructs osf.io/preprints/ps...

I am often told that public critique of published articles must also solve the issues found. I think this frequently enforced requirement hinders scientific self-correction. Blog post: mmmdata.io/posts/2025/0...

@klingelhoefer.bsky.social entering the multiverse and explaining how time dimensions of digital media use help explain why we sometimes find effects on well-being — and sometimes do not ⏱️📱 #ica25

If you're still going strong on the last day of #ica25 catch our presentation on the role of time in media effects research in this wonderful panel! With @aliciagilbert.bsky.social @chrdrn.bsky.social and @adrianmeier.bsky.social

Actual footage of me eating a tiny snack instead of lunch in-between sessions at #ICA25

LOVING @mqrmobile.bsky.social and @joebayer.bsky.social 's Mobile Top Paper on theorizing affordances of connectivity! @icamobile.bsky.social

@anishaarenz.bsky.social rocking her presentation "What triggers co-present smartphone use in everyday life?" - awarded as Top Paper by @icamobile.bsky.social 🥳 @annastockmann.bsky.social