Social media vs. messaging: using GPS data to explore social app ecologies in context Drawing on a large-scale mobile trace dataset from the United States (N = 463 participants; N = 19,867,944 app logs), we examined variability in social app ecologies while directly contrasting soci...

On the LCA front, @vkarnowski.bsky.social is the queen, too many to cite...

And then Lisa + our team used it recently: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#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/...

😂😭

technology.oregonstate.edu/services/cha...

🎉 CHI drop! 🎉

@rzhprfshr.bsky.social @joebayer.bsky.social
@jmschokkenbroek.bsky.social

👀

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

AI Week Panel on AI refusal in research and teaching

Really appreciated taking part in a panel for OSU's AI Week on AI refusal in research and teaching! ✨ Thrilled to have joined my color story coordinated, definitely not also my trivia team colleagues ❤️

Cool course on mobile methods @lukotto.bsky.social + @klingelhoefer.bsky.social!

I'm concerned that will decelerate because students will need those devices for similar AI tools :P

Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...

"low-value tasks" 🤮

www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Up there with listening to your own voice on a recording :P

Brainstorm “This is the best idea ever!” Lit Review “There are dozens of studies on this” Method “But this study design is better!” Results “No hypotheses were supported” Discussion “But I can explain!” Submission “This is the worst paper ever” Reviewer Feedback “HOW DARE THEY CRITICIZE THE BEST PAPER EVER?!” Reviewer Feedback, One Day Later “Fair enough” Resubmission “Ok NOW it’s the best paper ever!” Publication “Who wrote this garbage?!”

The Publication Roller Coaster™️

👇 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! ❤️

List of affordances

🥳 It was an affordance party yesterday in Media Theory, feat @commfox.bsky.social & @mcewan.bsky.social (2017), and of course @dualipa.bsky.social (wouldn't be a party otherwise!)

Next week! 🎉

I enjoyed chatting with @vox.com's @allieevolpe.bsky.social about solitude (and running!)

Potential epitaph: "People generally know that I [run in the mountains], so if I die, I would like to think that they would find me eventually"

Also feat. great folks Jeff Hall + @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social

#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

One month closer to the deadline for our special issue on mobile disconnection! 🎉 Stay tuned: next month we will host a synchronous meeting to review the goals of the issue as well as provide a networking space for scholars interested in this area 💬

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/...

Episode 5: Jason Farman – Embodied Space, Delay, and Mobile Storytelling YouTube video by Center for Transformative Media

In Episode 5 of the Oral Histories of Mobile Communication, we hear from @jasonfarman.bsky.social, Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, whose work has been foundational to the study of embodiment, space, and mobile media. Watch the episode here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ahi...

A Study on Customer Support Team Configuration and Service Quality in Financial Services Enterprises A Study on Dispatcher Scheduling and Service On-Time Rate in Urban Public Transportation Systems A Study on the Impact of Member Mobility on Research Output in University Research Teams Authors Matthew R. Collins1, Daniel T. Harris2, James A. Wilson3* Affiliations Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia Corresponding author: james.wilson@unimelb-placeholder.edu Abstract Customer support teams play a crucial role in ensuring service quality in financial services enterprises, and the rationality of their staffing directly affects customer experience. This study analyzes the relationship between staff size and service quality indicators, focusing on the configuration characteristics of customer support teams. Based on 18 consecutive months of operational data from the customer support center of a financial services enterprise, the sample includes 96 service teams, 2,430 customer service personnel, and over 3.2 million customer service records. Service quality is measured by average response time, first-time resolution rate, and customer satisfaction score. A generalized 1 configuration variables on service quality customer service team is controlled withi A Study on the Relationship between Labor Structure and Production Efficiency in Overseas Factories of Multinational Manufacturing Enterprises Authors Sebastian Weber1, Lukas Schneider2, Johannes Müller3* Affiliations Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM), 80333 Munich, Germany *Corresponding author: johannes.mueller@tum-placeholder.edu Abstract Public transportation systems have high requirements for service on-time rate, and the rationality of dispatcher scheduling directly affects operational stability. This study analyzes the relationship between dispatcher scheduling and service on-time rate. The stud…

Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).

Fellow academics: how long do you wait before contacting the Editorial Team about the manuscript that has been 'with Editor' for... a while? I've heard some random figures from colleagues (e.g., reach out if nothing happens after three months), but was wondering if you had any reasons why.

#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)

Leftovers from the final for Social Media and Interpersonal Relationships 🍩 Death by Donutz doesn't miss!

📢 ICA 2026 Preconference: “Affecting myself?!”

Join us in Cape Town to explore self- & feedback effects in digital communication!

🧠 Posters, discussions & networking
🗓️ More info: medienstruktur.ifp.uni-mainz.de/affecting-my...

#ICA26 #CommunicationResearch #DigitalMedia

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

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....

International Communication Association

Glad to hear there is an ICA AI task force

Less glad to hear it was introduced by assuming AI is "helpful" and "impossible to prevent"

link.icahdq.org/communities/...

Just AI conversation cards, one signed by Karen Hao

Part 2 of the Just AI series: thanks to fellow #AIvegan @karenhao.bsky.social for her insight, including her answer to the signed question card below!

Solitude in a Social World: Context Matters

#spsp2026 FoMO! Bummed to miss this stacked panel, not to mention the wings at the @chicagodiner.bsky.social