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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 1d

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to being on this STACKED panel celebrating five years of the Digitox seminar series on digital disconnection 🎉 We'll be taking stock of the past, present, and future of disconnection 📵

www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/...

Digitox seminar January 2026 - Department of Media and Communication

The state of the field: A panel conversation on theoretical and methodological developments in disconnection studies. Where have we been and where are we going?

www.hf.uio.no

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The Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social · 2d

The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is seeking volunteers to be mentors at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Faculty from all ranks are welcome. CAT/Mobile membership is not required, but faculty should be aligned. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 8d

Coming up next week!

@icamobile.bsky.social
@icasecac.bsky.social
@icahdq.bsky.social

Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 18d

First up in the @icamobile.bsky.social student and early career scholar event calendar is How to Submit to the Mobile Communication Division, featuring International Liaison @luytioco.bsky.social and former chair Keri Stephens. Details here:

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 9d

Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 10d

They ditched their old phone, but now they find they are using their tablet more in bed :P

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 11d

Old news!

www.brewhoop.com/2022/3/8/229...

Giannis Would Start In Any Era: A Primer on Affordances

Your best source for quality Milwaukee Bucks news, rumors, analysis, stats and scores from the fan perspective.

www.brewhoop.com

Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 11d

Applying Gibson's theory of affordances to sports?

www.nytimes.com/athletic/666...

What is CLA, the revolutionary coaching method used by Victor Wembanyama and other top athletes?

This radical coaching method was once a secret. Now, it’s reimagining athletic training and powering champions all over the world.

www.nytimes.com

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 11d

From this angle at least!

Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 12d

They switched to a small screen to make it harder for themselves to read articles in bed!

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 12d

Spotted in the wild 👀

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The Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social · 14d

The #ica26 preconference Affecting myself?! Exploring self & feedback effects in digital communication aims at bringing together scholars to discuss how communicators are shaped by messages & feedback. Extended abstracts due Jan 30, 2026. www.medienstruktur.ifp.uni-mainz.de/affecting-my...

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 15d

Cancel the rest of the course: the grad students of Mobile Communication, Self, and Society already understand mobile communication better than me 🎨

Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 17d

Nail 🤝 head

My favorite: AI-generated emails sent to university listservs by folks making more than me 👏

hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 18d

First up in the @icamobile.bsky.social student and early career scholar event calendar is How to Submit to the Mobile Communication Division, featuring International Liaison @luytioco.bsky.social and former chair Keri Stephens. Details here:

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 18d

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

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks to @aliciagilbert.bsky.social for presenting this project at #mepsy25! To use a metaphor completely unrelated to where I was during the presentation, it's like the Bryce Canyon hoodoos: possibly about to topple at any moment, but impeccably shaped over time to be stunning

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 23d

Somewhat out-of-date, but: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ESM & Mobile Sensing Solutions: Feature Table

docs.google.com

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 24d

Not yet! And yes!

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 24d

Honored to be a part of Big Tech's training data /s

www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

AI Watchdog - The Atlantic

The Atlantic's ongoing investigation of the books, videos, and other media used by the world's most powerful tech companies to train their AI models.

www.theatlantic.com

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 24d

Complementary access is provided here for the first 50 folks:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/N2UYI...
And a postprint is available here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 24d

Out now in @mediapsychmep.bsky.social, Dave DeAndrea and I clarify and test identity shift theory. Our findings show the importance of identification with claim and suggest a possible reorientation of the theory toward biased scanning:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.tandfonline.com

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Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social · Sep 10

You heard it here first (maybe): The CAT/Mobile doctoral consortium will officially be happening again at #ica26 in Cape Town! Are you dissertating? Consider applying for mentorship from top scholars in comm tech / mobile.

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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 27d

📲 Always feel pressured to be online?

This study by @sarahlutz.bsky.social, Frank Schneider, Annabell Halfmann, ‪@annafreytag.bsky.social & Dorothée Hefner shows how constant availability on messenger apps affects well-being. 🧘‍♀️

🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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ICA Mobile Communication @icamobile.bsky.social · 26d

We are currently accepting extended abstracts and workshop proposals for the #ICA2026 Mobile Preconference! We invite submissions across diverse disciplinary, methodological, and theoretical backgrounds!

Deadline is 30th January 2026, and the full call can be found here: www.icamobile.org/calls

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