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

#OpenAccess 📱👥 @anishaarenz.bsky.social & @annastockmann.bsky.social examine what triggers phone use while with others. 💡 Across 829 interactions, co-present use rose when others were on their phones or notifications appeared. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

Another day, another awesome co-author! Thank you so much for this collaboration 😊

Thank you so much for leading this! 🫶🏻

Crazy story: I finished my habilitation with my inaugural lecture last Thursday.👩‍🎓 A lot of work completed under not always easy circumstances: #MomInAcademia #FirstGen At the same time, I am grateful for all the support along the way 🍀🙏 @kai-arzheimer.com @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Simon Franzmann

Don’t forget to prepare your abstracts for our ICA precoference! Deadline: Jan 30 #ica26

We are looking forward to your submissions and participation!

Must-read!

This year, I am living in a simulation - literally. 🌀 @mscharkow.bsky.social, and I are currently conducting a #simulation study on how users interact with algorithms in short-video environments such as #TikTok. I’ve had two incredible opportunities to share our progress so far.

Please spread the word about this fantastic job-opportunity at the UZH department for communication and media research @ikmz.bsky.social ✔️ permanent contract ♾️ ✔️ 100% paid (123K CHF p.a.) 💰 ✔️ best city 🏞️ ✔️ fantastic colleagues 🤩 ✔️ research with a purpose ⚕️ jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

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

And we have TWO top paper award winners because the judges could not decide between them! @mqrmobile.bsky.social @joebayer.bsky.social @kevinkoban.bsky.social and Melanie Saumer! #ICA25

Huge congratulations to our top student paper award winner @anishaarenz.bsky.social! 🎉 🎉 🎉 #ICA25

In case you haven’t met @mqrmobile.bsky.social yet, he’s on stage now, also in the mobile communication best paper panel #ica25 @joebayer.bsky.social

@anishaarenz.bsky.social‬, our top student paper award winner, opens the #ICA25 session with a study examining the link between connection cues and co-present smartphone use in everyday life.

@anishaarenz.bsky.social presenting a paper based on her master thesis study in the best paper panel of the mobile communication devision 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #ica25

Great #ica25 presentation by @christinaviehmann.bsky.social on automatically measuring news waves 🌊

Great presentations by @rzhprfshr.bsky.social and @larawolfers.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 mobile methods rock! #ica25

@aliciaernst.bsky.social rocking our presentation on disengagement from mobile media apps 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #ica25

#ICA25 Denver is officially underway! 🎉 Mobile Comm kicks off tomorrow with sessions at 12PM & 3PM — don’t miss talks by @aliciagilbert.bsky.social, @annafreytag.bsky.social, @aliciaernst.bsky.social, @annastockmann.bsky.social, @dougaparry.bsky.social & more! 📱💬

BREAKING: "Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029." #ICA25

I am hiring :-). I look for a PhD student & a postdoc for my new Digital Lives team at the U of Basel. Looking for 2 who are excited to study our everyday digital lives with me in the next years. Please share with your network. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Auf dem Weg zur #dgpuk2025 Darum solltet ihr morgen um 11h Uhr zum Sonderfenster Ehrenmitglieder in NS-Organisationen gehen: 🧵 1. Verhaltensweisen im Faschismus ist ein aktuelles Thema (obviously) & ich hab aus der Beschäftigung mit den Ehrenmitglieder viel gelernt www.conftool.net/dgpuk2025/in...

🚀 The GESIS AppKit is live! 🚀 Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested? ✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...

Hello Bluesky :) we are the media use and media effects division #RezFo of the German Communication Association #DGPuK & just joined Bluesky. We have a list with #RezFo researchers that you can add to your feed to follow updates. Let us know if you want to be added. (bsky.app/profile/did:...).

TRAGISCHE EINZELFÄLLE? 📣 Neuer OBS-Trendreport analysiert Christine Meltzer, wie Medien über #Gewalt gegen #Frauen berichten. Autorin hat 3.172 Artikel ausgewertet, die 2020 bis 2022 erschienen sind. ▶️ Ein Einblick in die zentralen Ergebnisse im Thread. 👇 [1/6] #StopptFemizide

Are age restrictions really the best we can do? Or are there better ways to improve the impact of social media on youth well-being? Join us in finding out! I’m seeking a PhD student to support the collaborative PROMISE project 🇪🇺 More info: www.commsci.rw.fau.eu/team/job-pos... Thanks for sharing!

Publication alert 🎉📄 In our new paper “The Situation in Media and Communication Research” published in Communication Theory, we present a metatheoretical framework for theorizing media behavior at the situational level. doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...

Here is @mscharkow.bsky.social's and my take on the past, present, and future developments of computational text analysis. Read the preprint now, as it will already be outdated at the time of official publication: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

🎉 Neues DFG-Projekt! 🎉 Teresa Naab (Uni Mannheim) und ich (@ifpmainz.bsky.social, @unimainz.bsky.social) werden zusammen mit unserem Projektteam untersuchen, welche Auswirkungen pol. Äußerungen und erhaltenes Feedback auf das pol. Selbstkonzept & die pol. Beteiligung von Nutzer*innen haben.

Job Alert: Postdoc-Stelle (3 Jahre, 100%, @IKMZ) im SNF-Projekt „Alternative Medien, Alternative Normen?“   Weitere Informationen zur Stelle und zum Projekt: t.uzh.ch/1G6   Bei Fragen gern bei mir melden.

We proudly present: Prof. Dr. Veronika Karnowski 🎉 @vkarnowski.bsky.social gave her inaugural lecture at Chemnitz University of Technology yesterday. Our team is very proud of Veronika's achievements - and there are more to come 🤫 Stay tuned!

📢📢 Publication alert! Anisha Arenz and I are thrilled to announce that our meta-analytical review on #phubbing predictors is now published as an #onlinefirst article at @mobilemediacomm. Check out the fulltext ➡ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/7)