2024 Student and Early Career Lunch

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We hosted a wonderful Student and Early Career lunch on 22nd June 2024. We met outside the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, stopped by the Friendly Grocer and had a lovely time connecting at Kurrawa Park by the beach.​​

 

2024 Mobile Communication Presentations 

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HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: Addicted or Disconnected?

Chairs: Julius Klingelhoefer, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; Mariek Vanden Abeele, Ghent U

• Commentary: Mapping a Pluralistic Continuum of Approaches to Digital Disconnection. M. Q. Ross; A. Gilbert; J. Klingelhoefer; M. Matassi; L. Nassen; S. Van Bruyssel; A. Verlinden; D. A. Parry

• “How I Wish I Could Quit Them All!”: Experience of Compulsory Mobile Socialities and Detachment and Camouflage of Self in WeChat Groups. Y. Xu

• A Grounded Research on the Conceptualization of Smartphone Addiction Among Chinese Older Adults. Y. Wang; S. Pan

• From Technology to Changes in Habits of Consuming Media: Effects of Mobile Device, Short-Form Video Addiction, and News Avoidance. M. Sui; I. Hawkins

• Beyond the Buzz: Investigating the Effects of a Notification-Disabling Intervention on Smartphone Behavior and Digital Well-Being. C. A. Dekker; S. E. Baumgartner; S. Sumter; J. Ohme

• The Relationship Between Addictive Use of Short-Video Platforms and Marital Satisfaction in Elderly Chinese Couples: An Asymmetrical Dyadic Process. M. Wang; K. Wang; W. Mu; J. Deng; M. Zhou

• (Fake) News-Finds-Me: Integrated Platforms, Interactive Uses, and Problematic News Consumption. I. Hawkins; S. W. Campbell

• Are Anxiously Attached Mobile Dating App Users Less Successful and Feel Worse After Use? The Moderating Effect of Platform Anonymity. J. M. Hu; M. F. Thomas

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HIGH-DENSITY: Navigating Ubiquitous Connectivity

Chairs: David de Segovia Vicente, Ghent U; Adrian Meier, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

• Navigating Social Boundaries on WeChat: Extending Boundary Management Theory Through an Empirical Exploration With College Students. L. Xie; X. Zhao

• Disconnection Strategies to Improve Productivity and Well-Being: A Two-Wave Panel Study. J. Klingelhoefer; M. Nguyen; S. Geber

• Exploring How Role Conflict Affects Social Media Self-Disclosure: Integrating Protection Motivation Theory and C-A-C Model. J. Zhou; K. Peng

• Changes on the Horizon: Delineating Authenticity of Self-Presentations in the Metaverse. K. Wong; S. Wheeler; S. Fitzsimmons; T. Burke; M. Kanzawa; S. Salazar; J. Jiang; E. Sychangco; A. Wu; A. Pace; M. Javier; D. C. Jeong

• Unplugged in a Connected World: The Effects of Gain /Loss Framing on Information Seeking Intention About Digital Detox Among Frequent Mobile Users. J. N. Blessing; F. ieracitano

• Everyday Smartphone Use in 2023: Data From 1,800 people Combining Survey, Mobile Experience Sampling, and Logging/Data Donation. R. Toth

• Neural Screenomics: Using Neuroscience to Decode Cognitive States From Individuals’ Digital Trajectories of Media Multitasking. R. Park; Y. Chang; B. Reeves; N. Ram

• Who Counts Even More? Towards the Reciprocal Relevance Attribution of Proximal and Distal Reference Groups for Adolescents’ Visual Self-Representation. C. Riesmeyer; J. Kühn; A. F. Zillich; A. Wunderlich

 

Mobile Media, Urban Life, Family Life and Migration

Chair: Adriana de Souza e Silva, North Carolina State U

• Gluten Free Apps, Disability, and Travel: Developing a Critical Heuristic for the Implementation of Mobile Apps. J. J. Grandinetti

• Who Digitally Builds Ambient Hometown and Mobilises Chinese Migrants’ Money to Their Hometowns? A Critical Realist Perspective. Y. Xiong

• “I Think You Got a Role in This Society Not to Expose”: Enacting Techno-Moral Sociality Among Older Filipina Australians. E. B. Cabalquinto

• Location-Aware Mobile Technologies for Women’s Safety. R. L. Glover; M. Stone

 

HYBRID: Top Papers of the Mobile Communication Division

Chair: Mariek Vanden Abeele, Ghent U

• Hybrid Spaces Revisited: Adjusting the Apertures of a Trifocal Lens. A. de Souza e Silva; S. W. Campbell

• Conflicting Norms Around Mobile Media Dis/Connection and State Mindfulness: A Vignette Experiment. M. Nguyen; S. Geber

• Momentary Motivations for Digital Disconnection: An Experience Sampling Study. J. Klingelhoefer; A. Gilbert; A. Meier

• Sharing Is Caring: The Positive Role of Smartphone Co-Use in Social Dynamics. A. Stevic; A. Meeus

• Drawing the Urban Coffee Map: Geomediatizaiton and the Hybrid Urban Landscape. A. Huang

 

HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: Mobile Media, Platforms and Affordances

Chairs: Janine Brill, Chemnitz U of Technology, Andrew Z H Yee, Singapore U of Technology and Design

• Power Imbalance Between Platforms and Users: An Exploration of Privacy Apathy Towards Mobile Platform Surveillance. Y. Pu; H. Chen

• Messaging Applications and Misinformation: A Systematic Review. A. Liu; O. Kuru

• “What the Heck is Going on Here in the Group”: Non-Professional WhatsApp News Groups Claiming Journalistic Authority. J. Ilan

• Read Receipt: Platformization, Visibility Manipulation and User Resistance in Social Media. L. Shi; C. Yu

• Radiant Reflections: Women's Self-Aesthetic Trends on Dating Apps. Y. Zhou

• Citizenly: Information Technology System Design Using a Community Participatory Research Approach. A. Kothari; M. Howard; N. Sharma

• Elusive Embeddedness of Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Tensions Between Digital Place-Making and Physical Spaces. J. Zhang; A. Chib

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HYBRID HIGH-DENSITY: Mobile (Social) Media and Lifespan

Chair: Aurelio Fernández, U of Navarra & Ghent University; Morgan Ross, The Ohio State U

• Time to BeReal! Exploring Users' Well-Being in Relation to the Duration of BeReal Use. J. Kankova; A. Stevic; A. Binder; J. Matthes

• WhatsApp Is a Home for Older Adults in Malaysia. K. Kamalul

• Mobile Youth Culture 2.0: A Reconceptualization Accounting for the Local Embedding of the Smartphone. T. De Leyn; E. Togar; M. L. Antheunis; R. De Wolf; M. Vanden Abeele

• From Social Discipline to Self-Gaze: The Impact of Social Media Use on Chinese Youth's Self-Objectification. M. Fu

• A Life History Strategy and Unrestricted Sociosexuality Orientation Approach to Understanding How External Environmental Unpredictability Increases Individuals’ Casual Sex Behaviour Through Dating Apps. S. Hung; S. Chen

• Screenshots Analysis to Monitor Social Media Use in Adolescents: An Example From the HappyB Study. L. Marciano; Y. Liu; M. Baloch; J. Mee; J. Pointer; N. Osgood

• Misleading Content on Encrypted Platforms in Chile: WhatsApp and Telegram During Constitutional Elections. M. L. Santos*

 

Mobile Communication Escalator Session

Discussants: Earvin Charles Cabalquinto, Monash U; Tom De Leyn, Hasselt University; Ragan Glover, University of Texas at San Antonio; Justin Grandinetti, U of North Carolina Charlotte; Kathrin Karsay, University of Vienna; Will Marler, Tilburg University; Jakob Ohme, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society; Keri Stephens, The U of Texas at Austin; Mariek Vanden Abeele, Ghent U; Lara Wolfers, University of Amsterdam; Mai Nou Xiong-Gum, Furman U; Andrew Yee, Singapore U of Technology and Design

• Domesticating Smartphone in Distance: Digital Dilemmas and Coping Strategies of Families With Left-Behind Children in China During the Long Epidemic. P. Shao; Y. Fan

• Prison Cell Phones: Mobility and the Smuggling of Digital Technologies into Prisons. C. T. Najem

• Influences of Social Media-Based Communication on Ecotourism: A Case Study in India. S. Samanta

• Why Call-for-Justice User-Generated Content Turns Into Human Right Abuses? H. Lin

• Using Agent-Based Modeling to Explore the “Myth” of Media Multitasking. R. Liu; S. Li

• Anxiety of the Youth: Grounded Theory Approach in the Context of Strong-Tie Social Networks. Z. Wang; S. Liu

• Does Creating Content on YouTube Qualifies for Good Digital Outcome? Understanding the Use of Digital Media by Tribal Women in India. K. Shaw; C. Garg

• Support in the Palm of Your Hand: Affordances of Mobile Apps to Help With Panic Attacks and Anxiety Disorder. K. Kopecka-Piech; A. Nalepa

• Imagination of Prosperity: A Study on Social Media Exposure and Labor Migration Decision. E. Zhou; M. Guo; L. Du

• The Negotiation of Modern China Gay Identities: A Qualitative Analysis of Text-Based Communication in Dating Apps. Y. Huang

• Encore At Will: Practice of Social Media Logic Through Music Concert Videos on WeChat Channel. Y. Lu; B. Zhou

• Public Perception and Societal Impact of Technologies for Human Augmentation: A Systematic Literature Review. G. Frascaria

 

Mobile Communication Poster Session, Poster Session

• Playing With Visibility: Underground Electronic/Dance Music Culture in the Smartphone Age. S. Yang

• Negotiating Nationalism on YouTube: Mobile Warfare and “Comedy” Bits From Small-Town India. R. Walia

 

Current Topics in Mobile Communication

Chair: Cecilia Uy-Tioco, California State U San Marcos

• Trapped in the Cycle of Anxiety: Research on Time-Mediated Management and Time Anxiety in Modernity. G. Song; X. Tian

• Narrative Interfaces: Performative Materiality and Gesture in Mobile Gaming. G. Bollmer

• Overt Conviviality and Covert Distress: Navigating the Online Emotions of Left-Behind Women via Douyin in Rural China. B. Ju; T. L. Sandel

• #Storytime: An Analysis of Health Crisis Narratives, Conspiracies and New Digital Media. S. Lorenzo

• Images Matter: The Role of Mobile Image-Sharing Practices in Everyday Interactions for Relationship Maintenance. D. S. Apte

 

HIGH-DENSITY: Opportunities and Challenges of Mobile Media for Health, Community and Citizenship

Chairs: Deepti Apte, Symbiosis International U; Archana Krishnan, U at Albany - SUNY

• Enhancing Physical Activity Through a Mobile App-Based Relational AI Chatbot: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Y. Oh; K. Liang; J. Zhang; D. Kim; Z. Yu; Y. Fukuoka

• Connecting to Support: How Use of an mHealth App Explains Antiretroviral Medication Adherence Among People Living With HIV and Substance Use Disorders. E. Yang; R. Z. Mi; A. Tahk; L. M. Cotter; A. Tarfa; L. Lu; M. Li; S. Yang; D. Gustafson; R. Westergaard; D. V. Shah

• ‘Why Do I Need a Phone Anyways?’: Reticence From Mobile Media as a Gender Performance Among Rural Women in India. D. Chakraborty; C. Garg

• ‘Digitalised Mobility Rights’ in the App Sphere: A Comparative Study on Policy Actors’ Perspective in Global South and Global North. J. You

• Mobile Phone’s Role in Health Information-Seeking and Providing Health Care in Mountain Province, Philippines During the COVID-19 Pandemic. D. B. Zapata

• Mobile Veganism: How Mobile Apps Shape the Construction and Mobilisation of Vegan Consumerism. D. J. Kirby

• Heterogeneity in Mobile Youth Culture: How Smartwatch Use Forms Mobile Childhood Culture in China. J. Liu; Z. Zeng

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Mobile Media and the 'in situ'

Chair: Anja Stevic, U of Vienna

• Tapping into Feelings: Exploring Smartphone Use in Emotion Suppression and Expression - An ESM Study. D. de Segovia Vicente; K. Van Gaeveren; S. Murphy; M. Vanden Abeele

• The Situation in Media and Communication Research. V. Karnowski; A. Schnauber-Stockmann; J. B. Bayer; G. M. Harari

• Uncovering the Missing Pieces: Predictors of Non-Response in a Mobile Experience Sampling Study on Media Effects Among Youth. A. Reinhardt; S. Mayen; C. Wilhelm

• Quantity and Quality of Mobile Media Use: The Role of Gratification and Situation Variety. R. Toth; A. Fernández; J. García-Manglano; P. de la Rosa

• (Almost) 50 Ways to Leave an App: Situational Deselection of TikTok. A. Ernst; A. Schnauber-Stockmann

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