Early Career Lunch At ICA in Paris

On Friday, May, 27, we will meet somewhere in or in front of the conference hotel and go for a lunch or a picnic together. Are you an early-career mobile communication scholar and interested to get to know new people? Just join us! Time and place will be announced when we are in Paris and Lara has found a good slot for this.

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You can register here and will receive a reminder and update with time and location shortly before the lunch: https://uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fHFAOFIBiebGwS

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If you have any questions concerning the events, feel free to reach out to ICA Student and Early Career Scholars Representative Lara Wolfers (l.n.wolfers@uva.nl) and International Liaison Representative Hoan Nguyen (hoannguy@usc.edu).

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2022 Mobile Communication Presentations 

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Top Papers in Mobile Communication.  Chair: Keri Stephens/Mariek

• ScreenLife Capture: A privacy-respecting, open-source, and user-friendly framework for collecting screenome data; Yee, Andrew

• Mobile Phones and Power Relationships: Understanding the Agentic Motivations and Strategies of North Korean; Defectors; Ibasco, Gabrielle C.

• Tracking the Temporal Flows of Mobile Communication in Daily Life; Ross, Morgan

• Hybrid War, Hybrid Peace: Mobile Communication at the Frontline in Eastern Ukraine; Horbyk, Roman

 

Mobile Media and Romance. Chair: Danielle Bleize

• “Does it assist you to see her/him”: The impact of smart phone use among visually impaired people on their establishment of a romantic relationship; Wang, Min

• The association between mobile dating app use and relationship status satisfaction: A quasi-experimental study; Bleize, Daniëlle

• Short-Sighted Ghosts. Psychological Antecedents and Consequences of Ghosting Others within Adolescents’ and Young Adults' Romantic Relationships and Friendships; Forrai, Michaela

• Privacy in couple relationships: A qualitative study of young adults’ perceptions and regulation of privacy regarding smartphones; Veretilnykova, Mariana

• Love App-tually: A Systematic Literature Review of Quantitative Research on Mobile Dating; Konings, Femke

 

Situational Use - Smartphones in our Daily Lives. Chair: Devina Sarwatay

• Situating Smartphones in Daily Life: Big Five Traits and Contexts Associated with Smartphone Use; Harari, Gabriella

• Can Mothers Avoid Guilt About Their Smartphone Usage Behavior? Effects of the Availability Norm and Goal Conflict on Guilt, Recovery, and Task Accomplishment; Halfmann, Annabell

• When the smartphone gives no rest: How messenger-related demands influence users’ well- and ill-being; Lutz, Sarah

• Situation-, Person-, and Device-Specific Factors When Mothers Use Their Smartphones for Coping With Stress; Wolfers, Lara

 

Phubbing & Relationships. Chair: Mariek Vanden Abeele 

• Co-present Smartphone Use, Friendship Satisfaction, and Social Isolation: The Role of Coping Strategies; Stevic, Anja

• Phubbing, Rejection Sensitivity, and Interpersonal Communication: Examining the Effects of Phone Usage During Face-to-face Communication; Allred, Ryan

• “I Can’t Believe I Phubbed Up Our Friendship!”: Psychosocial Problems, Smartphone Addiction, Friend Phubbing, and Life Satisfaction; Sun, Juhyung

• Partners’ Communication in Response to Co-Present Mobile Phone Usage; Kelly, Lynne

 

Mobile Use Within and Across Generations. Chair: Thilo van Pape

• Misinformation on WhatsApp: Generational Perceptions and Correction Considerations Among Young Indians; Malhotra, Pranav

• The Generational Gap in Mobile Usage Patterns during 3G-4G transition: Evidence from Electronic Measures of Mobile Usage Panel Data; Kim, Su Jung

• Digital Youth Culture in Vietnam; Nguyen, Hoan

• Ageing migrants’ intimate (im)mobilities in a digital era; Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles

• Speaking into an App or Not? Exploring the Relationship between WhatsApp Use and Intergenerational Communication in Aging Singapore; Zhou, Yichen

 

Mobile Media: Societal Risks and Opportunities. Chair: Jakob Ohme 

• Understanding civilians' usage of smartphones as a second screen under fire: The case of Israel’s military operation "Guardian of the Walls”; Elishar Malka, Vered

• Privacy and security in the digital sphere: How netizens in two African countries navigate risks; Adjin-Tettey, Theodora Dame

• IN PURSUIT OF A ‘SAFE’ SPACE FOR POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: A STUDY OF SELECTED WHATSAPP COMMUNITIES IN KENYA.; Ooko, Gloria

• Extended Abstract: Exploring Kenyans’ Interactions with Misinformation on WhatsApp; Mudavadi, Kevin

• Exploring the Different Impacts of Facebook and WhatsApp on Generalized Trust: A Quasi-Experimental Study in Hong Kong; Meng, Xiang

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Mobile Socialities, Home, and Presence. Chair: Maren Hartmann

• A Huge Social Experiment': The Rise of an Immobile and Trans-Domestic Sociality Under Lockdown Deborah Chambers

• Home-Work Embedded in Housework; Magnus Andersson

• “Working From Roam”: Mobility Fetishism and Remote Labor; Erika Polson

• Quo Vadis, Go-TV? the Reshuffling of Mobility by Video Networks in Italian Transport Terminals; Emiliano Rossi

• Unruly Smartphones and Chemicals: Negotiating Presence, Pleasure and Safety While Partying; Kristian Møller

• (Digital) Advocacy in the Context of Homelessness: Retracing Covid; Maren Hartmann

• Connecting (To) the World Through Ravidassia Music Videos and the Notion of Oneness in God? Mediated Advocacy Beyond Anti-Caste Movements and India; Dhanya Kirchhof

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Micromobilities: Seamless for Whom? Reimagining Mobility Justice and Sustainable Mobile Communication. Chair: Christian Licoppe

• Negotiating the Tensions of Seamlessness: Mobile Interfaces in the Everyday Micromobility of French E-Bike Users; Thilo von Pape

• Micromobility and Data: Entanglements of Low-Carbon Mobility and Social Justice; Frauke Behrendt

• Understanding the Relationship Between Micromobility and Mobility Justice in Rio De Janeiro; Adriana de Souza e Silva

• Disability and Micromobilities in an Asian Communicative City; Gerard Goggin

 

High Density: Infrastructure, Location, and Locative Media. Chair: Jason Frith

• Reviewing 'local' experiences, constructing local enclosures: Google Maps Local Guides platform and configurations of crowdsourced-mapping; Bhandari, Aparajita

• The Mobile Camino: When An Ancient Pilgrimage Route Meets Digital Technologies; Ahn, So Yun

• Live and Kicking: Digital Live Broadcast Technologies, Participating Strangers and News MobilityIlan, Jonathan

• Audio Description as Auteur Placemaking: Addressing Accessibility Issues in Public Places Through Locative Sound-Art Experiments; Oppegaard, Brett

• Climate Technologies: Mobile apps and sustainable community engagement in disaster risk communication in Australia; Delmo, Kate

• Mobile Communication and the Emergence of ‘Space’: Social Relations and Representations in the Signalan; Cusi, Karen

• Examining Edge Computing’s Impact on Networked Mobilities; Glover-Rijkse, Ragan

• L'infrastructure de la 5G et les contraintes de la convergence des réseaux; Tournier, Adrien

 

High Density: Disconnection, Mindfulness and Well-being. Chair: Katrin Karsay

• Effects of Mindfulness Training via App on Cognitive and Behavioural Connectedness to the Mobile Phone; Freytag, Anna

• On a Break from the Phone: An Analysis of Users’ Wellbeing by exploring the Impact of complete Smartphone Separation versus restricted Phone Use; Muench, Catharina

• “Harmful, unhealthy, addictive”: Disconnection from smartphones and moral mandates of wellbeing; Matassi, Mora

• Offline Tourism: Digital and Screen Ambivalence in Mountain Huts with No Internet Access; Syvertsen, Trine

• Twenty-four hours without mobile connection - Communication students' voices on the effects of this technology in their daily lives; Simelio Sola, Nuria

• Mindful Mobile Phone Use: A structural equation model of mindfulness, mobile phone connectedness, and stress; Hefner, Dorothée

• Digital Motherhood: Self-Tracking Apps for Breastfeeding Mothers: A Study on Usage and Effects on Maternal Well-being; Sawalha, Nariman

• Reciprocal and individual effects of smartphone use on adolescents’ well-being: An intensive longitudinal study; Marciano, Laura

• Beyond Screen Time: The Effects of Smartphone App Use on Sleep in a 7-day Mobile Tracking Study; Sumter, Sindy

 

High Density: Mobile Media Methods, Measures and Processes. Chair: Waqas Ejaz

• Communication findings may be overestimated. Comparing Self-Reported with Log Mobile Data by Mobile Donation Method; Wu, Biying

• Self-Reported Measures of Social Media Use Show High Predictive Validity; Verbeij, Tim

• The development of a podcast motivations scale based on uses and gratifications for users in Taiwan; Chou, Suyu

• A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Mobile Phone Appropriation between the United States and China; Zhang, Xinyi

• Why time flies? The role of immersion on short video usage behavior; Yan, Yurong

• Compulsive Mobile Phone Use and Perceived Threat: Test of the Third-Person Perceptual and Behavioral Dimensions; Krishnan, Archana

• Self-Control No Matter What? The Effects of Availability Preferences and Valuation of Temptation Enactment on Self-Control Failure and the Well-Being of Messenger Users; Halfmann, Annabell

• Mindlessness in the Mobile Era? A Comparison of Information Processing on Mobile Phones and Personal Computers; Liao, Mengqi

• (In)Direct Relationships between Social Media Use, Perceived Benefits, Self-Esteem, and Fear-of-Missing-Out (FOMO); Ejaz, Waqas

• Information Processing on Smartphones in Public versus Private; Ohme, Jakob

 

High Density: Mobile Media and the Pandemic. Chair: Archana Krishnan

• The Future is Sick: Mobile Technopathologies and Pandemic Conspiracies (Extended Abstract); Scott, D. Travers

• Connected Fitness During COVID-19: Care, Control, and Social Connection through Digital Self-Tracking Across Three Countries; DiCosola, Blake

• Where horizontal and vertical surveillance meet: Sense-making of US COVID-19 contact tracing apps during a health crisis; Baik, Jeeyun Sophia

• Identifying AI Technology-based Functions and Features of Mental Health Monitoring Applications and Their Persuasive Effects During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Lee, Ah Ram

• Glocal Intimacies During a Global Pandemic: Mobile Media and Transnational Elite Filipino Migrants; Uy-Tioco, Cecilia

• Mobilizing Energy During COVID-19: A Case Study on Diasporic Chinese Food Delivery Apps in Los Angeles; Lv, Junyi

• The COVID-19 Infodemic at Your Fingertips. Reciprocal Relationships Between COVID-19 Information FOMO, Bedtime Smartphone News Engagement, and Daytime Tiredness Over Time; Koban, Kevin

• Resilience and (dis)empowerment: Use of social media among female mainland migrant workers in Macao during the Covid-19; Ju, Bei

• Mapping the COVID-19 pandemic with mobile devices: Grass-roots networked initiates in the Rio de Janeiro favelasde; Souza e Silva, Adriana

  

Mobile Communication Studies Interactive Poster Session

• Extended Abstract: Theory-Based Determinants of Parents' Intention to Use Mobile Apps for Child Poisoning Prevention. Results of a Sequential Mixed Methods Design; Stehr, Paula

• Goodnight, Strangers: Reconstructing and Extending of Social Support on Social Media Platforms: A Computational Communication Analysis of Zoufan’s Weibo Comments; Song, Hang

• TikTok as an LGBTQ+ space: Exploring queer online identities and social media affordances; Labor, Jonalou

• TikTok’s gemeinschaft: Community building and participation on a mobile short video platform; Kaye, D. Bondy

 

VIRTUAL: Apps and Social Media in Mobile Communication

• Do smartphone application preferences change over time or vary by demographics? A longitudinal study using behavioral data; Parry, Douglas

• Explaining Misinformation Encounters on Messaging Applications: How Different Uses and Group Characteristics Shape Practices and Perceptions; Kuru, Ozan

• Birds of a Feather Get Angrier Together: Effect of Social Media News, Political Homophily on Political Anger; Cheng, Zicheng

• Contact tracing apps, nationalism, and users with disability in the Global South: the faith in state and collective objective; Rohman, Abdul

 

VIRTUAL: Wellbeing and Gender in Mobile Communication

• The Impacts of Media Richness, Blurriness, and Beautification of Online Dating Profile Visual Elements on Dating Outcomes; Dai, Minhao

• Improving Bystander Self-Efficacy to Prevent Violence against Women Using Mobile Phone Entertainment Education: A Randomized Controlled Trial; Pant, Ichhya

• Connecting with Others and Being Socially Alone: A Complementary Perspective on Mobile Media Use and Solitude; Ross, Morgan

• Invalid Measurement and Unrelated Outcomes? Exploring basic issues with digital well-being research using mobile phone screen time log; Wang, Edwin

 

VIRTUAL: High Density: Emerging Research in Mobile Communication. Chair: Douglas Parry

• Mobile Communication Research in 15 Top-Tier Journals, 2006-2020: An Updated Review of Trends, Advances and Characteristics; Wei, Ran

• Study of Mobile Media Users’ News Engagement from a Sequential Perspective; Deng, Yilin

• Multiple, direct, and intentional: An affordances approach to understanding smartphones for distant parenting; Waruwu, Barui

• Improving Bystander Self-Efficacy to Prevent Violence against Women through Interpersonal Communication using Mobile Phone Entertainment Education; Pant, Ichhya

• Bridging the Digital Gap: A Grounded-Theory Study of E-commerce Entrepreneurship in Rural China; Lin, Jingke

• Beyond Informdemic: Chinese International Students Use Social Media to Cope with the Uncertainties amid Covid-19; He, Guanqin

• Quantified Self and Intrapersonal Changes: How AI-enabled Wearable Devices Influence Subjective Perception and Mental Health Healthcare Ecosystem for Seniors; CHEN, Bingyu

• Communicative context matters: An experience sampling method (ESM) study on social media use and subjective well-being in China; Lu, Yingying

• Visions of disconnectivity. How emerging adults imagine potential effective mobile apps for digital technology self-regulation?; Kopecka-Piech, Katarzyna

• Gay Dating App usage and Life Satisfaction: Examining the Mediating Roles of Sexual Encounters and Relationship Commitment Intention; Yin, Zhuoheng

 

VIRTUAL: Mobile Communication Studies Interactive Poster Session

Exploring Stress and Short-Form Video Applications Addiction among Middle-Aged Chinese Adults: The Mediating Roles of Duration of Use and Flow Experience; Huang, Qing

Decomposing "Triple Articulation": The "de-domestication" practices of smartphone resisters; MA, Xinyao

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One-on-One Escalator Session (Mobile Comm). Chairs: Gerard Goggin; Jakob Ohme 

• Expectations from and for young people regarding their mobile and social media lives; Sarwatay, Devina

• Reaching the “impossible generation”RosokDahl, Heidi

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