Endlessly Connected: Moving Forward with Agentic Perspectives of Mobile Media (Non-)Use

Karsay, Kathrin; Vandenbosch, Laura

doi:10.1080/15205436.2021.1974785

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“…While browsing, intra-individual motivations and processes (e.g., inspiration, malicious and benign envy) might lead to positive, negative, or no effects among social media users (Meier & Schäfer, 2018; Nabi & Keblusek, 2014; Valkenburg et al, 2022). Furthermore, it has been argued that active practices of social media use need clearer operationalizations, non-clicking behavior on social media, or non-use of mobile social media altogether result from conscious and thoughtful engagement (e.g., Ellison et al, 2020; Karsay & Vandenbosch, 2021; Matthes et al, 2020).…”

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Messaging, Posting, and Browsing: A Mobile Experience Sampling Study Investigating Youth’s Social Media Use, Affective Well-Being, and Loneliness

Karsay

Matthes

Schmuck

et al. 2022

Social Science Computer Review

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Employing a mobile experience sampling design, we investigated in the present study how different types of mobile social media use relate to young individuals’ momentary affective well-being and momentary loneliness. We differentiated between three types of social media use: Messaging, posting, and browsing. Moreover, we studied fear of missing out (FoMO) as a moderating variable. We collected data from 79 middle and late adolescents ( M age = 17.55 years, SD = 1.29; 59% girls) yielding 956 momentary assessments. The results showed that messaging and posting were positively related to affective well-being, while browsing was associated with higher levels of loneliness. Furthermore, some of the relations between social media use, affective well-being, and loneliness were also moderated by FoMO. Our results highlight the need to differentiate between different types of social media use, to include individual predispositions, and to apply methods that account for daily fluctuations in psychological well-being when studying the complex relationship between youth’s mobile social media use and well-being.

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Messaging, Posting, and Browsing: A Mobile Experience Sampling Study Investigating Youth’s Social Media Use, Affective Well-Being, and Loneliness

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Matthes

Schmuck

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Social Science Computer Review

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“…Second, how can people then attain digital wellbeing? While current literature often thinks of self-regulated disconnection as a remedy to the consequences of excessive and uncontrolled mobile media use, for socioeconomically and digitally disadvantaged populations other interventions may be more important for attaining digital well-being (Karsay & Vandenbosch, 2021;Valasek, 2022). Relatedly, motivated by digital inequality scholarship, research could focus on the digital skills that become ever more important to navigate and manage the increasingly complex digital information environment, and that can help prevent perceptions of overuse and overload (Gui et al, 2017;Hargittai & Micheli, 2019;Nguyen, 2021), thereby fostering digital well-being.…”

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“…Interestingly, these terms resonate with observations of early researchers in the mobile media and communication community. In 2002, for instance, Katz and Aakhus (2002) coined the term “perpetual contact,” and Licoppe (2004) describes contemporary individuals as living in a perpetual state of “connected presence,” with mobile media rendering them 24/7 “individually addressable” Ling (2008).…”

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“…Mobile media scholars are currently actively exploring these features, among others through the identification of novel concepts such as "messaging guilt" (Halfmann et al, 2021) and "availability stress" (Hall, Steele, et al, 2021). As we currently witness the emergence of digital well-being as a separate field of research (Karsay & Vandenbosch, 2021), it becomes essential to identify the unique role of mobile connectivity-and especially mobile communication, in shaping these experiences and thereby our understanding of what it means to be "digitally well." This Special Issue on "Digital Well-Being in an Age of Mobile Connectivity" meets this aim.…”

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“…Public and scholarly discussions frequently address what users can do to safeguard or improve their digital well-being. The question of user agency over mobile connectivity (Karsay & Vandenbosch, 2021) plays a central role in these discussions, as there is general consensus that the addictive design of mobile technologies-referring to smartphones and mobile apps in particular-challenges user agency (Vanden Abeele, 2021). Recognizing that some users need help in managing their screen time, a new industry has emerged that aims to support users, among others by helping them place limits to their connectivity.…”

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Digital well-being in an age of mobile connectivity: An introduction to the Special Issue

Abeele

Nguyen

2022

Mobile Media & Communication

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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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Mobile media education as a tool to reduce problematic smartphone use: Results of a randomised impact evaluation

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Argentin

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Endlessly Connected: Moving Forward with Agentic Perspectives of Mobile Media (Non-)Use

Cited by 15 publications

References 72 publications

Messaging, Posting, and Browsing: A Mobile Experience Sampling Study Investigating Youth’s Social Media Use, Affective Well-Being, and Loneliness

Messaging, Posting, and Browsing: A Mobile Experience Sampling Study Investigating Youth’s Social Media Use, Affective Well-Being, and Loneliness

Digital well-being in an age of mobile connectivity: An introduction to the Special Issue

Mobile media education as a tool to reduce problematic smartphone use: Results of a randomised impact evaluation

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