Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Phubbing—ignoring another person in order to use a smartphone instead—is an increasingly common behavior that disrupts interactions and harms relationships. Using the frameworks of the theory of planned …
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Socioeconomic status and demographic determinants are the most commonly examined factors in the study of the second-order digital divide regarding the differences associated with Internet use. The role o…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Due to ‘stay-at-home’ measures, individuals increasingly relied on smartphones for social connection and for obtaining information about the COVID-19 pandemic. In a two-wave panel survey (NTime2 = 416), …
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Using mobile media can be both detrimental and beneficial for well-being. Thus, explaining how and when they elicit such effects is of crucial importance. To explicate boundary conditions and processes f…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. TikTok is one of the most popular apps. TikTok’s endless stream of content, the lack time stamps or notifications of ever being “all caught up,” and concealing the phone’s clock make it easy to lose trac…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Media panics research is concerned with widespread social anxiety formed around a new technology or medium. This study adds to existing research by characterizing a new form of media panic around augment…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Mobile technologies offer the potential for efficacious and cost-effective lifestyle interventions for weight loss. Extant research indicates that mobile health (mHealth) lifestyle interventions are pote…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Contemporary discourse around digital well-being tends to focus on self-control when it comes to “addicting” social media apps and digital devices. By acting on behalf of users, designers and engineers p…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Technological resistance practices hold significant insights regarding the media’s role as much as its adoption and usage practices. However, studies examining media non-use have generally overlooked mob…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Most prior research on the effects of mobile and social media on well-being has worked from either the “technology addiction” or “screen time” approach. Yet these frameworks struggle with considerable co…