#MobileComm #Events PRE-ICA HANGOUTS 5 May UTC 2pm 6 May UTC 3am Chat with folks in our division—whether or not you’re going to ICA! ALL ARE WELCOME! LINK: https://tinyurl.com/icamobileevent (password: ICAMOBILE)

Pregame #ica26 with these @icamobile.bsky.social sponsored events!

On 5 + 6 May, we'll chat about ICA et al ☕ Here's the link: tinyurl.com/icamobileevent (pw: ICAMOBILE)

On 8 May, there's an event to help students + early-career scholars prepare for ICA. Register here: forms.gle/AryewUXumCsC...

📵 Next month we will host TWO synchronous meetings to review the goals of the mobile disconnection special issue as well as provide a networking space for scholars interested in this area 💬 Please see the “special events” below to register!

www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/...

Thanks, Morgan! :)

NEWS April 2026

📣 Our April newsletter is out!

🤩 Registration for #GESISfallseminar is open.
🔍 Interview with @lukotto.bsky.social & @klingelhoefer.bsky.social on mobile collection methods.
✨ Updates on #GESISworkshops on causal inference methods + Call for Individual Training.

👀 ➡️ t1p.de/Training-NL-...

Nice review of key evidence (and what's missing) related to teen social media bans from @orbenamy.bsky.social and the digital mental health group in Cambridge. If you're looking for a trustworthy report, this is a great high-level starting point!

www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/d0b4c5...

GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2026 🗓️ 31 Aug – 29 Sep 2026 📍 Mannheim or online

📣 We're excited that the program for this year’s #GESISfallseminar in Computational Social Science is out & registration is now open!

🗓️ 31 Aug – 29 Sep 2026
📍 GESIS Mannheim or online

More info at gesis.org/fallseminar. Full program & registration at t1p.de/FallSeminar2026-Program.

@gesis.org

👇 Cool opportunity for mobile data from @jsradford.bsky.social and Northeastern's National Internet Observatory

nationalinternetobservatory.org/researchers....

Of interest to @icamobile.bsky.social 📱

Thanks to @qinli0.bsky.social for sharing! ❤️

#GESISGuides #DBD #DigitalBehavioralData #mobiledatacollection #GESISAppKit
Out now: GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data #27: Charlotte de Alwis, Vijaya Lakshmi, Mareike Wieland: How to Use the GESIS AppKit?

https://t1p.de/yj0cb

Communication, Culture & Critique is proud to publish its first thematic issue: "Palestine as Communicative Epistemology." Volume 19, Issue 1 (March 2026). Editors: Paula Chakravartty, Karma R. Chavez, Dina Matar. White letters on red background.

Communication Culture & Critique An Official Journal of the International Communication Association Volume 19, Number 1 March 2026 Special Issue: Palestine as Communicative Epistemology Guest Editors: Paula Chakravartty, Karma R. Chavez, and Dina Matar Forum Why Palestine as communicative epistemology? PAULA CHAKRAVARTTY, KARMA R. CHAAVEZ, AND DINA MATAR The narrative struggle for Palestinian liberation An interview with Prof. Noura Erakat NABIL HASSEIN, MARIA PAZ ALMENARA, AND NADINE FATTALEH Bitification and the Gaza genocide HELGA TAWIL-SOURI On Palestinians’ insistence that Palestinian journalism matters AMAHL BISHARA Fashioning the keffiyeh as a Palestinian anti-colonial medium BERNARDITA M. YUNIS VARAS AND SARAH CATHRYN MAJED DWEIK A breakup letter with media studies NABIL ECHCHAIBI Resonance, or sympathetic vibration: A Black feminist ethic for Palestine VICTORIA NETANUS XAKA Original Articles Framing Gaza: Medical Journals and the destruction of Healthcare OSAMA TANOUS, YARA ASI, WEEAM HAMMOUDEH, DAVID MILLS, AND BRAM WISPELWEY Palestine as a laboratory: Aerial technologies, colonial violence and an origin of information-weaponry systems SEBASTIAN JAMES ROSE AND BURCE CELIK How to unsee Gaza: Israel’s visual politics in a time of genocide REBECCA L. STEIN Witnessing undone: Silence, noise and the enabling of genocide in Gaza OMAR AL-GHAZZI Algorithmic censorship, power, and resistance in the Arab region: A case study of pro-Palestinian content TAMER FARAG, FLORIAN PRIMIG, AND HANAN BADR Book Review The decolonial cautions of Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization GOLDIE OSURI

Our Aim: Our goal is to rethink how knowledge about Palestine is produced and shared. We aim to move beyond framing Palestine as merely a 'conflict' or 'laboratory' and instead highlight the lived realities of colonial violence and media complicity. By centering anti-colonial thinkers like Edward Said, Aime Cesaire, Fanon, and Sherene Seikaly, we seek to reveal which facts are communicated, and which are silenced. Ultimately, we encourage scholars to rethink methods in understanding and representing Palestine. White letters on background image featuring destroyed buildings in Gaza.

Read the full issue here: https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/19/1. This journal is available through most university libraries. If you are unable to access articles, please email us at cccjournal2024@gmail.com. Thank you to the authors, contributors, and reviewers whose work informs this issue. White letters on red and black backgrounds.

The Communication, Culture & Critique editorial collective is proud to publish our first thematic issue:

PALESTINE AS COMMUNICATIVE EPISTEMOLOGY

academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/19/1

IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s

Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

Thanks so much, that's a great honor and I am excited you liked it! :))

Danke Dir, Max! :)

Introducing new JoC SI publication: “Possible futures all at once: time frame and time lag in short-term longitudinal media effects research on well-being”, by @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @aliciagilbert.bsky.social @chrdrn.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

The special issue on time in communication research in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social is now out. Proud to be part of it with this article in which we investigate the influence of time frame and time lag and theorize on temporal processes underlying media effects.

Do Disconnection Strategies Improve Well-Being and Productivity? A Two-Wave Panel Study Over One Month: https://osf.io/27n3w

Introducing the editorial for the Special Issue: “Time in communication research and theories”, by Tai-Quan Peng, Zheng Wang.
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

#ICA26 #MobileComm #Events INFORMATION SESSIONS 7 April UTC 2pm 8 April UTC 3am Learn and ask questions about our division! ALL ARE WELCOME! LINK: https://tinyurl.com/icamobileevent (password: ICAMOBILE)

➡️ Next up: the #ICA_Mobile Information Sessions! A great chance to learn 📖 and ask questions 🙋 about our division. Join us on 7 + 8 April! Here's the link: tinyurl.com/icamobileevent (password: ICAMOBILE)

This is the trust trap, and we have seen it play out again and again in institutions like media, higher ed and govt.

The right feeds distrust, use that distrust as a justification to take control, and then undermine the core competencies that everyone else actually values, further eroding trust.

Very cool congrats, Michal! 🎉 Amazing topics and methods.

Looking forward to not making these from scratch ever again. Very useful for everyone working with multilevel data.

Thanks for the package, Felix!

Example screenshot of multilevel descriptive table created with mlstats R package

If you are working with multilevel data, try out my new package mlstats 📦 — an #rstats package for multilevel analyses. You can create publication-ready descriptive tables like the one below (including within- AND between-group correlations + ICCs).

github.com/felixdidi/ml...

Details in thread 🧵↓

Top Dissertation Award 2026 | ICA Mobile Call for Nominations for the the Top Dissertation Award

☎️ Calling student and early career scholars in @icamobile.bsky.social! Please consider applying to our dissertation award (by *31 March) + emerging scholar grant (by 4 May) ✍️ Details below!

www.icamobile.org/topdissertat...

www.icamobile.org/emergingscho...

@rzhprfshr.bsky.social is our March 2026 scholar in the spotlight! She is a PhD student working closely with @joebayer.bsky.social and Dr Mimi Brinberg in understanding how everyday mobile media use affects relationships.

See our full interview with Razieh here! www.icamobile.org/scholar-razieh

ibck lore expanded to 1 book + 1 paper theory!

(congrats on the publication, very interesting stuff ☺️)

More-than-human mobile media & communication? 🐋

New #OpenAccess article by Scott W. Campbell & Ragan Glover explores MMC through the lens of whales.

💡 A more-than-human perspective that lets us rethink mobility, media & communication

🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

Felt Time Scale (FTS): Measuring how people experience screen time Our field has been questioning whether self-reported media use actually captures the time spent using media, resulting in a shift from subjective to objective measurements. We advocate for a new pa...

Really thought-provoking piece from Jana Dombrowski and @sabinetrepte.bsky.social! ⏳

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research.

#PsychSciSky 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🚨New pre-print🚨

osf.io/preprints/ps...

What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?

📵📱 CfP — Special Issue:

"Mobile Disconnection"

Editors: @mqrmobile.bsky.social, Mora Matassi & @trinesy.bsky.social

📅 Abstracts due: July 31, 2026

🔗 Full CfP: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...