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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seems like it should be part of the "are phones ruining the kids" debate that every marker of teen mental health has improved since 2021 www.cdc.gov/yrbs/youth-h...

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Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm back working after ~3 months off to care for my son. And it looks like its going to be an interesting time for social media regulation in the EU! I wrote something about my thoughts on the leaked proposal regulations for social media in the EU. www.linkedin.com/posts/dougap...

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A social media ban in the EU? Reflections on the leaked proposals | Douglas A. Parry

A social media ban in the EU? Stronger protections are needed, but banning young people is not the answer. Ahead of the expected announcement, some reflections on the leaked proposals, the promise o...

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The who's who of mobile communication scholarship coming together 🤩 If you ever wanted to see your scholar idols together at one table - this is THE event ⭐️ (and it's hybrid, too!) Sign-up link below

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ICA Mobile Communication @icamobile.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🗳️ !!Vote now for our new division Vice-Chair!! 🗳️ ICA elections have opened so members can cast their votes until 20 October at 12:00 noon EDT. Help elect our new Mobile Communication Division Vice-Chair and vote on the proposed changes to our bylaws! Vote here: www.icahdq.org/page/Electio...

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International Communication Association

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor

Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.

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The Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The ICA Communication and Technology Division is thrilled to announce the #ICA26 top poster in CAT is Mora Matassi, Universidad de 'San Andrés' Title: Social Readings of Social Media Disconnection. See it Sun 7 June, 1:30pm, Hall 2 (CTICC1).

The ICA Communication and Technology Division is thrilled to announce the #ICA26 top poster in CAT is Mora Matassi from Universidad de 'San Andrés'
The poster title is: Social Readings of Social Media Disconnection and you can see it on Sunday 7 June at 1:30pm in Hall 2 (CTICC1) and the award will be given at the CAT business meeting Sunday 7 June 4:30pm in Nerina (CTICC2). Congratulations Mora!

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Frauke Schöne @schoenefrauke.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

🚨🚨Teilnehmende gesucht! @aliciagilbert.bsky.social @leonardreinecke.bsky.social Tägliche Instagram-Nutzer*innen für Studie im Rahmen meiner Masterarbeit gesucht! Ich freue mich sehr über eure Unterstützung! Hier geht's zur Vorbefragung ⬇️ sosci.zdv.uni-mainz.de/instagram-nu...

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Journal of Communication @journal-of-comm.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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/...

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Julius Klingelhoefer @klingelhoefer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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.

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ICA Mobile Communication @icamobile.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

@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

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

➡️ 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)

#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)

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Felix Dietrich @felix-dietrich.de · 18/03/2026

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 🧵↓

Example screenshot of multilevel descriptive table created with mlstats R package

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

Building the camps

The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🚨 It's time again for @icamobile.bsky.social's Early Career Colloquium! 🎤 Want to briefly + casually present to early career scholars about a mobile comm project you're working on (any stage)? 📊 Fill this out before 17 February! ✍️ @icasecac.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social forms.gle/pTYBKGZRyWtz...

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Early Career Colloquium: Interest Form

Calling all early career scholars! Want to briefly and casually present to fellow early career scholars about a mobile communication project you're working on (at any stage)? Fill out this form and yo...

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

As a fan of this interview series, I was stoked when the @icamobile.bsky.social division approached me to share thoughts and projects for their Feb edition of #ScholarInTheSpotlight 😊

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

☎️ Calling all early career scholars! Want to talk casually with an @icamobile.bsky.social senior scholar about a mobile comm project you're working on? Fill out this form by 19 January + we'll match you with a senior scholar to provide feedback: forms.gle/hdhayc34dXEb...

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Senior Scholar Support: Interest Form

Calling all early career scholars! Want to talk casually to a senior scholar about a mobile communication project you're working on (at any stage)? Fill out this form and we will match you with a seni...

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ICA Mobile Communication @icamobile.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Mora Matassi is January's scholar in the spotlight! She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Argentina. You can view the full interview with Mora through this link: www.icamobile.org/scholar-mora

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

hey #mobilecomm community @icamobile.bsky.social For a new exhibition on 100 yrs of mobile telephony, the Communication Museum in Frankfurt am Main prepared a website w many cool historic photos. 🤳 They also discuss a phoneless future 🤫 www.digitales-museum-fuer-kommunikation.de/expotizer-un...

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Unterwegs telefonieren – Digitales Museum für Kommunikation

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ICA Mobile Communication @icamobile.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Exciting times ahead! In June, our newly elected officers @lisemarienassen.bsky.social, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social, and @deeptiapte.bsky.social will officially step into their roles to take #ICAMobile forward. We look forward to introducing them at the #ICA26 Business Meeting. Stay tuned!

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 15/12/2025

The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

New preprint from our digital disconnection project with @klingelhoefer.bsky.social and @adrianmeier.bsky.social We find that #disconnection can help to reduce #procrastination.

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Ian Axel Anderson @aanixel.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨 S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria. S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse. Thread below... 🧵

This plot shows the number of users in the Study 1 sample that self-described as 'addicted' to Instagram versus those who were 'at risk' of clinical addiction. The ratios for the addiction symptom scale are 9:371 and for the perceived addiction 69: 311, suggesting a much greater proportion of users self-perceive as addicted than are actually addicted to Instagram

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Tamás Kriváchy @krivachytamas.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

5️⃣/🔟 In Scientific Reports, 5 of the top 10 most cited articles have an article number of 1. 5️⃣/🔟 In Nature Communications the same: 5 of the top 10 are article 1s. Coincidence? 👇 scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0... I think not.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

📬 Pub alert Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*? Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋 @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social Out now in Communication Research doi.org/10.1177/0093...

A screenshot of the article title "Disconnect to Recharge: Well-Being Benefits of Digital Disconnection in Daily Life" and the abstract.

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Philipp K. Masur @masurphil.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

NEW PREPRINT 💡 Together with @dougaparry.bsky.social, I just published a new preprint experimentally examining how specific normative cues on social media shape self-disclosure using an innovative simulation approach. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... Read on for more information (1/9) 👇

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

and here we are in 2025, when @economist.com publishes nonsense on AI facereading for evaluating people's hirability -- the lack of historic awareness is staggering

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🎉 The PolComm Database Dashboard is live! The database content is now available in an interactive dashboard: a milestone since launching submissions at #ICA25 in Denver. Explore this resource here 👉 politicalcommunication.org/resources/

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Ian Axel Anderson @aanixel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Had fun presenting on my forthcoming work about social media habits and addiction at the USC Neely Center and Addiction Sciences Institute the other week...A recording is now available on YouTube! Link below goes to my intro and ~15min talk; Q&A is at the end! youtu.be/QT6G0PpvQhg?...

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State of the Science: Digital Media and Addiction Webinar

YouTube video by Neely Center

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Alicia Ernst @aliciaernst.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🎉 📣 Out now in Communication Research! 📣 🎉 What makes us stop using #media in a specific situation? A new study by my great co-author @annastockmann.bsky.social and me examines situational #disengagement from #TikTok and #Instagram. 📱 🔚 Find the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Anisha Arenz @anishaarenz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Ever found yourself scrolling on your phone in the middle of a conversation?📱👥Curious about why this happens, @annastockmann.bsky.social and I explored the situational drivers of co-present phone use in our new🔓#OpenAccess paper, just published in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social🎉 (1/6)

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ICA Mobile Communication @icamobile.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

✨ Scholar in the Spotlight is here! Meet Rich Ling - our very first featured scholar! Discover his insights and what makes his tick! Here's the fun part: each scholar picks the next one to spotlight. Who will Rich choose? 👀 Read the full interview 👉 www.icamobile.org/spotlight-ri... #ICAMobile

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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Felix Dietrich @felix-dietrich.de · 15/10/2025

Thank you @overbye.bsky.social — going to Greece to present the paper wasn’t so bad either 👀 Also thanks to my wonderful co-authors @aliciaernst.bsky.social, @rkreling.bsky.social, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social, @mscharkow.bsky.social, @leonardreinecke.bsky.social and Benedikt! More to come soon!

The research group at the coast of Hermoupolis, Syros

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

5 years of the digitox seminar series 🥳 It's now practically an institution for those interested in digital disconnection research A must attend in Jan 👇

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

New work from our lab 💕 Finally a paper with all my lab besties

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Another year, another full slate of @icamobile.bsky.social student and early career scholar events! Here are the details:

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

💡Pub alert 💡 Why do users stop a media activity? Today I presented "101 reasons to stop: A systematic review of media cues for disengagement" at #CHIGreece2025 🏖️ The full paper - the 3rd of my PhD thesis - is now available #openaccess at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Summary below ⬇️

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Returned from this year's #MediaPsych25 conference in Duisburg with lots of inspiration, food for thought, & new ideas (note to self: no, you cannot start 2 more projects). Got valuable feedback on my theoretical work on #disengagement - why & how do users stop exposure? @mepsy.bsky.social (1/3)

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Dr. Melanie Leidecker-Sandmann @leidecker-sandmann.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🔥Hot off the press: Studie zur Repräsentation weiblicher Forschender in den Medien 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0963... 📰 Inhaltsanalyse: 4.860 Medienartikel 👩‍🔬 Nur 18% der zitierten Expert:innen sind Frauen 📊 Frauenanteil in der Forschung: ca. 31% ➡️ Deutliche Sichtbarkeitslücke für weibliche Forschende

Zwei männliche und eine weibliche Silhouette. Im Vordergrund Mikrophone wie bei einer Pressekonferenz

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 05/09/2025

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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