Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1177/20501579221104625b
Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam
in Taipei were the least likely news consumers via their mobile phones. Interestingly, this difference did not appear statistically significant in the survey of 2017–2018. It is noteworthy that students under stricter news media supervision in cities (e.g., Shanghai) reportedly perceived mobile news to be more credible than those living in cities where press freedom is ranked higher (e.g., Taipei). This appears both counter-intuitive and fascinating. This timely and much-needed work paves the way for future research concerning news consumption behavior and its relationship with mobile technologies. Wei and Lo argue that mobile technologies afford users portability, interactivity, and mobility. Researchers can, for example, study how such affordances influence ordinary users’ sense of interpersonal distance between both journalists and governments. This may influence the extent to which users perceive freedom from these affordances. It is possible that mobility or portability that is often interpreted as a democratizing affordance may close the distance between government, journalists, and users. Thus, it may be important to consider not only how users are motivated to seek information through mobile phones, but also whether they perceive surveillance by political actors. By extension, understanding the affordances of mobile news from the perspectives of journalists and government may also strengthen our understanding of mobile communication in a civil society.
{"title":"Book Review: Young children's play practices with digital tablets by Isabel Froés","authors":"Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam","doi":"10.1177/20501579221104625b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579221104625b","url":null,"abstract":"in Taipei were the least likely news consumers via their mobile phones. Interestingly, this difference did not appear statistically significant in the survey of 2017–2018. It is noteworthy that students under stricter news media supervision in cities (e.g., Shanghai) reportedly perceived mobile news to be more credible than those living in cities where press freedom is ranked higher (e.g., Taipei). This appears both counter-intuitive and fascinating. This timely and much-needed work paves the way for future research concerning news consumption behavior and its relationship with mobile technologies. Wei and Lo argue that mobile technologies afford users portability, interactivity, and mobility. Researchers can, for example, study how such affordances influence ordinary users’ sense of interpersonal distance between both journalists and governments. This may influence the extent to which users perceive freedom from these affordances. It is possible that mobility or portability that is often interpreted as a democratizing affordance may close the distance between government, journalists, and users. Thus, it may be important to consider not only how users are motivated to seek information through mobile phones, but also whether they perceive surveillance by political actors. By extension, understanding the affordances of mobile news from the perspectives of journalists and government may also strengthen our understanding of mobile communication in a civil society.","PeriodicalId":46650,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":"10 1","pages":"554 - 555"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46695579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.1177/20501579221110324
Ran Wei, J. Fan, Jindong Liu
Benefiting from the smartphone turn in wireless telecommunication, studies about mobile telephony have continued to grow in the 3/4G era. To explore the growth trends in the 3/4G era, and what and how mobile media are studied, the present study analyzes patterns and trends of mobile communication research in 512 articles published in 15 top-ranked communication journals from 2006 to 2020. Findings indicate that mobile communication research has grown into a distinctive subfield or sub-discipline, defined by four main characteristics. First, the scope of mobile communication research is broader than studies of mobile media alone. Second, mobile media as global technologies have attracted international authors, although global scholarship is uneven. Third, the boundary of mobile communication has expanded from social, economic, and cultural perspectives to those of health, education, and tourism. Fourth, although mobile communication research is increasingly theory-informed, building distinctive theories about mobile communication remains a challenge for future growth.
{"title":"Mobile communication research in 15 top-tier journals, 2006–2020: An updated review of trends, advances, and characteristics","authors":"Ran Wei, J. Fan, Jindong Liu","doi":"10.1177/20501579221110324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579221110324","url":null,"abstract":"Benefiting from the smartphone turn in wireless telecommunication, studies about mobile telephony have continued to grow in the 3/4G era. To explore the growth trends in the 3/4G era, and what and how mobile media are studied, the present study analyzes patterns and trends of mobile communication research in 512 articles published in 15 top-ranked communication journals from 2006 to 2020. Findings indicate that mobile communication research has grown into a distinctive subfield or sub-discipline, defined by four main characteristics. First, the scope of mobile communication research is broader than studies of mobile media alone. Second, mobile media as global technologies have attracted international authors, although global scholarship is uneven. Third, the boundary of mobile communication has expanded from social, economic, and cultural perspectives to those of health, education, and tourism. Fourth, although mobile communication research is increasingly theory-informed, building distinctive theories about mobile communication remains a challenge for future growth.","PeriodicalId":46650,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":"11 1","pages":"341 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47320315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/20501579211051820
Anja Stevic, Kevin Koban, Alice Binder, Jörg Matthes
Due to 'stay-at-home' measures, individuals increasingly relied on smartphones for social connection and for obtaining information about the COVID-19 pandemic. In a two-wave panel survey (NTime2 = 416), we investigated associations between different types of smartphone use (i.e., communicative and non-communicative), friendship satisfaction, and anxiety during the first lockdown in Austria. Our findings revealed that communicative smartphone use increased friendship satisfaction over time, validating how smartphones can be a positive influence in difficult times. Friendship satisfaction decreased anxiety after one month, signaling the importance of strong friendship networks during the crisis. Contrary to our expectations, non-communicative smartphone use had no effects on friendship satisfaction or anxiety over time. Reciprocal effects showed that anxiety increased both types of smartphone use over time. These findings are discussed in the context of mobile media effects related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-19DOI: 10.1177/20501579221076207a
D. Inwood
{"title":"Book Review: It Happened on Tinder: Reflections and Studies on Internet-Infused Dating by Amir Hetsroni and Meriç Tuncez (Eds.)","authors":"D. Inwood","doi":"10.1177/20501579221076207a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579221076207a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46650,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":"10 1","pages":"361 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41890323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-19DOI: 10.1177/20501579221076207
Jinmei Lyu
{"title":"Book Review: Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem by Francisco Yus","authors":"Jinmei Lyu","doi":"10.1177/20501579221076207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579221076207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46650,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Media & Communication","volume":"10 1","pages":"360 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47141472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.1177/20501579221090409
Tin-yuet Ting
Using digital ethnography to examine the daily mobile (micro)blogging (moblogging) practices of local residents as they confronted a wave of inbound shopping tourists in pre-Covid-19 pandemic Hong Kong, this article explores how the latest mode of mundane citizenship emerges from the communicative mobility of urban dwellers equipped with mobile phones and social media applications (apps). Recent research on the role of mobile devices and social media apps in citizen participation has focused on more visible forms of civic–political events, such as protests and voting, and tended to neglect the effects of mobile communication performed during banal travel and quotidian activities. This article offers an alternative reading of the relevance of mobile social media (MSM) in contemporary public lives by examining how they open up new temporalities and spatialities for counter-public engagement in the contexts of mundane urban mobility. The findings demonstrate various moblogging practices that entail modalities of counter-public engagement that traverse the personal, proto-political, and communal, and reveal how local residents used these modalities to articulate alternative public agendas, connect acts of consumer activism, and perform communal belonging vis-à-vis inbound shopping tourism amid their daily routines and modest journeys. Focusing on mobile socialities enabled by smartphones and networking apps, this article explicates how contemporary moblogging can, on the one hand, extend people's capacity to engage in citizen talk and connective action, while on the other hand, allow them to flexibly connect and contribute personal photobiographies and narratives to counter-public communities. By unpacking the novel pathways to citizen participation, it offers insights into new ways in which everyday mobile communication can be transformed into public involvement, albeit often in agonistic and emotional forms, and the role of MSM in this process.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-04DOI: 10.1177/20501579221083753
Sharon L. Storch, A. V. O. Juarez-Paz
The development of mobile communication technologies and their associated professional usage within the domestic (nonwork) sphere proves challenging to understand and to establish work–life balance. To understand the foundational decisions to incorporate technology (mobile devices) within our domestic time and space, this study explores how individuals use their mobile device for professional or work-oriented communication within the nonwork or domestic sphere. Using Domestication Theory as an important guide, the research explored how the border between the two domains (spheres) were managed. From 32 semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study uncovered 2 overarching themes: Control of Time and Influences. These themes provide understanding of the role mobile devices play in professional communication decisions, what control participants have, and how individuals manage work permeations into the domestic sphere. This research makes a theoretical contribution in the spirit of Clark’s Work/Family Border Theory. With the infusion of mobile devices, a model is proposed offering a fresh perspective of how borders are conceptualized in organizational and familial communication in this context.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-03DOI: 10.1177/20501579221077525
Li Zhong, Vincent Huang, S. Guo
Due to separation from their families and friends in their home countries and constrained living conditions in the host countries, migrant workers usually are found to experience loneliness. Compared with male migrant workers, female migrant workers are more vulnerable and likely to experience higher levels of psychological problems. The ubiquity of mobile phones enables migrant workers to access resources and social support to help to alleviate loneliness. However, research also suggests that mobile phone use may lead to a higher level of loneliness because problematic or excessive use displaces meaningful social interactions. This study investigates this mobile phone paradox among Filipino domestic workers (FDWs) in Hong Kong. Specifically, it explores the relationships between mobile phone use and two types of loneliness, namely social and emotional loneliness. Further, informed by the augmentation hypothesis and the displacement hypothesis, this research advances a two-path model to illustrate how mobile phone use connects with loneliness through social support and problematic mobile phone use. Findings from a survey of 492 FDWs reveal disjunctive effects. There is no direct correlation between mobile phone use and the two types of loneliness. Both problematic mobile phone use and social support are found to mediate the negative association between mobile phone use and social loneliness, while only problematic mobile phone use mediates the positive association between mobile phone use and emotional loneliness. Implications of the research on migrant workers’ mobile phone use and practical implications for social work and government efforts in helping FDWs dealing with loneliness are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-25DOI: 10.1177/20501579221080594
V. Karnowski, Thilo von Pape
Academic publishing is under increasing scrutiny for its role in reproducing gender inequality among academics (Lundine et al., 2019) and other inequalities related to such differences as authors ’ ethnicity and geographic context (Collyer, 2018). Not only are scholarly publications a critical success factor at various stages of the academic career (Winslow & Davis, 2016), but they also constitute the very corpus of our knowl-edge, which may therefore directly suffer from given biases. This reality imposes a responsibility on the institutions and individuals involved in producing and selecting academic publications to re fl ect on their part in perpetuating or countering existing inequalities. Beyond public academic discussions (e.g., #CommunicationSoWhite), such introspection within the fi eld of communication research has been realized through investigations into the differential representations of genders (e.g., Trepte & Loths, 2020) and geographic contexts (e.g., Demeter, 2019) in scholarly publications. The need for such investigations has further gained urgency through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic since disasters generally tend to increase existing cleavages (Bolin & Kurtz, 2018; Ward & Shively, 2017). Institutions and individuals have indeed reacted to the situation by producing rich evidence, from individual fi rst-hand accounts of scholars ’ personal experiences, shared through social media or elaborated into auto-ethnographic studies, to analyses of massive data that was publicly available.
学术出版因其在再现学术界性别不平等方面的作用（Lundine et al.，2019）以及与作者种族和地理背景等差异相关的其他不平等（Collyer，2018）而受到越来越多的审查。学术出版物不仅是学术生涯各个阶段的关键成功因素（Winslow&Davis，2016），而且它们也构成了我们知识优势的主体，因此可能直接受到特定偏见的影响。这一现实要求参与制作和选择学术出版物的机构和个人有责任反思其在延续或消除现有不平等方面的作用。除了公开的学术讨论（例如，#CommunicationSoWhite）之外，通过对学术出版物中性别差异表征（例如，Trepte&Loths，2020）和地理背景（例如，Demeter，2019）的调查，在传播研究领域实现了这种反思。由于灾难通常会增加现有的裂缝，因此新冠肺炎大流行进一步增加了此类调查的紧迫性（Bolin&Kurtz，2018；Ward&Shively，2017）。机构和个人确实通过提供丰富的证据对这种情况做出了反应，从通过社交媒体分享或阐述到汽车民族志研究的学者个人经历的个人第一手描述，到对公开可用的大量数据的分析。
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Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1177/20501579221080899
M. V. Vanden Abeele, M. Nguyen
Although the ubiquitous connectivity afforded by mobile media brings benefits to people’s work, social, and leisure lives, these benefits are sometimes overshadowed by the burdens of 24/7 connectivity, which challenge the well-being of individuals and society. Digital well-being is an emerging concept that refers to how people experience these benefits and burdens. This Special Issue brings together five articles that push the boundaries of digital well-being research by shedding light on the opportunities and challenges that people experience in relation to mobile connectivity, exploring the role of digital disconnection for digital well-being, and theorizing the conceptual underpinnings of digital well-being. In this editorial, we first give a definitional overview of the digital well-being concept and situate it in the field of mobile media and communication scholarship. Next, we identify two key issues that emerge from the Special Issue, and explain how the individual articles further our understanding of them. These issues are: (a) the strong conceptual link between digital well-being and digital disconnection; and (b) the conceptual difference between digital well-being as a psychological condition and as a socio-cultural artefact. To end, we present a future research agenda on digital well-being by first identifying current knowledge gaps, and next highlighting several themes that we anticipate as crucial in the forthcoming decade of digital well-being research in an age of mobile connectivity.
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