Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection

Abeele, Mariek Vanden; Halfmann, Annabell; Lee, Edmund Wei Jian

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.12.007

Cited by 51 publications

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“…Relevance of news is a cloud-based information analytics software provider that provides real-time representations of data linkages from various sources ( Antomarioni et al, 2022 ). Current audience research acknowledges the media-saturated character of everyday life, but the function of journalism for individuals living in this digitalized world is less obvious ( Vanden Abeele et al, 2022 ). The argument for integrating two contrasting analytical perspectives in cultural audience research that depend on the framework of practice theory in order to create a better understanding of the role of journalism and news in everyday life.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Flipboard is a visually rich news aggregator for phones and tablets that collects material from a range of sources and organizes it into themed collections. After then, readers can track collections, themes, or publications ( Vanden Abeele et al, 2022 ). Social media, as well as various news channels, may serve as news curating services.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Impact of News Overload on Social Media News Curation: Mediating Role of News Avoidance

Zhang¹,

Akhter

Nassani

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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In this global village, easy access to news has resulted in many changes in the preferences and patterns of people for accessing news. Therefore, the present study has attempted to investigate the effects of news relevance, perceived quality, and news overloading on people’s news curation preferences. This study has also examined the mediating role of news avoidance between the news relevance, perceived quality, and news overloading on the news curation. A quantitative technique has been employed to check the relationships proposed in the study. A sample size of 217 has been analyzed to check these hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that news relevance has a negative impact while news overload positively and significantly impact the news curation. However, the news avoidance only mediated the relationship of news quality and news curation. Theoretically, the study has contributed to the literature of journalism and social media by finding that relevance of news has a negative significant impact on the news curation behavior of people, such that if they do not find the news relevant, they happily curate it. Practically, the study implies that the people are more prone to the quality of news rather than quantity; therefore, it is important for the news agencies to ensure that they produce and deliver the quality based news considering the accuracy to penetrate the Theoretic lass level.

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Section: Theoretical and Hypothesis Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical and Hypothesis Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of News Overload on Social Media News Curation: Mediating Role of News Avoidance

Zhang¹,

Akhter

Nassani

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…This allows researchers to parse out specific smartphone related behaviors (such as application switching; Deng et al, 2019), content-based media effects (such as in examining the impact of meaningful media experiences; Janicke-Bowles et al, 2022;Krämer et al, 2021;Oliver, 2022;Oliver et al, 2016), and exploring digitally mediated social interactions (T. , among others. There have been increasing calls for research on digital media effects to be more content-and context-sensitive (vanden Abeele, 2021;vanden Abeele et al, 2022), and screenomes as a source of digital media use data provides such an opportunity.…”

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ScreenLife Capture: An open-source and user-friendly framework for collecting screenome data from Android smartphones

Yee¹,

Yu²,

Lim³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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As our interactions with each other become increasingly digitally mediated, there is growing interest in the study of people’s digital experiences. To better understand digital experiences, some researchers have proposed the use of screenomes. This involves the collection of sequential high-frequency screenshots to provide detailed objective records of individuals’ interaction with screen devices over time. Despite its usefulness, there remains no readily available tool which researchers can use to run their own screenome studies. To fill this gap, we introduce ScreenLife Capture, a user-friendly and open-source software to collect screenomes from smartphones. Using this tool, researchers can set up smartphone screenome studies even with limited programming knowledge and resources. We piloted the tool in an exploratory mixed-method study of 20 college students, collecting over 740,000 screenshots over a two-week period. We found that smartphone use is highly heterogeneous, characterized by threads of experiences. Using in-depth interviews, we also explored the impact that constant background surveillance of smartphone use had on participants. Participants generally had slight psychological discomfort which fades after a few days, would suspend screen recording for activity perceived to be extremely private, and recounted slight changes in behavior. Implications for future research is discussed.

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“…Hence, it is clear that the trigger for this psychology is the restriction and threat to individual freedom by external forces. In the specific field of media use, previous studies have examined the negative psychological and behavioral responses of social media users (i.e., information overload, narrowed vision, restricted access, and forced connection) such as social media fatigue ( Bright et al, 2015 ; Whelan et al, 2020 ; Pang, 2021 ), fear of missing out (FOMO) ( Tandon et al, 2021 ), forced disconnection ( Nguyen, 2021 ; Vanden Abeele et al, 2022 ), and platform transfer ( Maier et al, 2015 ; Luqman et al, 2017 ), and so on. However, less research has been conducted concerning the psychological condition of users who actively resist after feeling the sense of unfreedom brought by algorithms.…”

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“…Despite the potential advantages that recommendation algorithms provide to users, they also have the “dark side” ( Salmela-Aro et al, 2017 ; Springer and Whittaker, 2018 ; Ma et al, 2021 ). Previous research has shown that as a structural power that constrains users’ agency ( Reviglio and Agosti, 2020 ; Schwartz and Mahnke, 2021 ), recommendation algorithms pose a range of problems such as visibility hegemony ( Swart, 2021 ), operational opacity ( Kulshrestha et al, 2017 ), bias and discrimination ( Kulshrestha et al, 2017 ), information overload ( Lin et al, 2020 ), disinformation and misinformation ( Clark, 2020 ) and privacy breaches ( Lam and Hsu, 2006 ), which may lead to negative psychological and behavioral responses from platform users, such as social media fatigue ( Bright et al, 2015 ; Dhir et al, 2019 ; Whelan et al, 2020 ; Fan et al, 2021 ; Pang, 2021 ), fear of missing out ( Roberts and David, 2020 ; Tandon et al, 2021 ), and forced disconnection ( Nguyen, 2021 ; Vanden Abeele et al, 2022 ), platform migration ( Maier et al, 2015 ; Luqman et al, 2017 ), etc. Although such researches have explored the operation mechanisms of algorithm from an ontological perspective, focusing on its structuring power (i.e., the structural limitations of data-tracking apps on user information access and platform use) ( Beer, 2017 ; Ford, 2021 ; Morrison, 2021 ; Welch, 2021 ), little attention has been paid to the dynamic processes of how users encounter algorithm and exploit their agency ( DeVito et al, 2017 ; Ettlinger, 2018 ; Klinger and Svensson, 2018 ; Rubel et al, 2020 ; Karizat et al, 2021 ; Velkova and Kaun, 2021 ).…”

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Adolescents’ Algorithmic Resistance to Short Video APP’s Recommendation: The Dual Mediating Role of Resistance Willingness and Resistance Intention

2022

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Adolescents have gradually become a vital group of interacting with social media recommendation algorithms. Although numerous studies have been conducted to investigate negative reactions (both psychological and behavioral reactance) that the dark side of recommendation algorithms brings to social media users, little is known about the resistance intention and behavior based on their agency in the daily process of encountering algorithms. Focusing on the concept of algorithm resistance, this study used a two-path model (distinguishing resistance willingness and resistance intention) to investigate the algorithmic resistance of rural Chinese adolescents (N = 905) in their daily use of short video apps. The findings revealed that the perceived threat to freedom, algorithmic literacy, and peer influence were positively associated with the resistance willingness and intention; while the independent psychology on algorithmic recommendations significantly weakened resistance willingness and intention. Furthermore, this study verified the mediating role of resistance willingness and intention between the above independent variables and resistance behavior. Additionally, the positive impact of resistance willingness on resistance intention was confirmed. In conclusion, this study offers a comprehensive approach to further understanding adolescents’ algorithmic resistance awareness and behavior by combining psychological factors, personal competency, and interpersonal influences, as well as two types of resistance reactions (rational and irrational).

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Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection

Cited by 51 publications

References 66 publications

Impact of News Overload on Social Media News Curation: Mediating Role of News Avoidance

Impact of News Overload on Social Media News Curation: Mediating Role of News Avoidance

ScreenLife Capture: An open-source and user-friendly framework for collecting screenome data from Android smartphones

Adolescents’ Algorithmic Resistance to Short Video APP’s Recommendation: The Dual Mediating Role of Resistance Willingness and Resistance Intention

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