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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 10h

right?? 5 yrs went by in a blink
so cool that we'll do the March edition 🤝

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 18h

massive thanks @vic-kra.bsky.social and team for organizing these gems

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 18h

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 👇

Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 19h

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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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 18h

😍

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 22h

very cool initiative!

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 22h

A strong agree. At the same time, it might need some of those specialized initiatives to establish replications more and for other journals to get on board. So I might say we need both

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Rebekka Kreling @rkreling.bsky.social · 1d

Interested in…
a) taking theories out of the lab (and try to specify them to work irl)
b) computational methods (data donations, LLM content analysis)
c) media coping
d) all of the above?
Then our new HCR-paper is *just* for you! doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 1d

Zauberwort ✨Lobbyarbeit✨

Reposted by Alicia Gilbert

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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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 16d

Now off to Ermoupoli beach to celebrate this 3rd publication of my PhD thesis (1 left to go! 😇) and my amazing co-authors @schoenefrauke.bsky.social @rkreling.bsky.social @felix-dietrich.de @leonardreinecke.bsky.social

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 16d

Some implications: 
📍Theory: Clearly conceptualize diseng & categorize cues 
📍Empirical studies: Systematically compare different media 
📍Design: Consider goal directedness (e.g., entertainment vs. info) & user motivation for specific media uses + prioritize agentic diseng as relevant design goal

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 16d

(3) Relevance of media cues for disengagement:
Often no straightforward reporting of results, e.g., no disentanglement possible between
 😶‍🌫️ different behaviours such as attention switch & disengagement in concepts like ad avoidance 
📲 different media cues in a joint intervention/demo

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 16d

(2) Organizing media cues for disengagement across levels of analysis: 
🌌 Eclectic selection of cues across studies 
📱Feature-level cues only studied for digital media 
🎮 Interaction-level cues only studied for gaming (but e.g., not social media) 
🎞️ Content-level cues studied most often

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 16d

(1) Structure of the field: 
📍Research centered in the US & Germany 
📍Computer science most prominent so far, followed by information science & communication science 
📍19% of studies with an industry partner 
📍Mostly exploratory methods
📍Focus on information search & gaming media

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 16d

Disengagement = users stop a media use activity in a given situation.
Whereas internal (psycho-physiological) & external context cues (e.g., temporal, spatial) have been theoretically organized, #media cues remain to be systematized.
➡️ We conducted a systematic review of 27 studies & 90 media cues.

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 16d

💡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 · 22d

Gut Ding will Weile haben (happy googling)

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 22d

important work!

Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 22d

Finally, after the conference is before the conference. 🤠
Next week, our team will head to #CHIGreece2025 on beautiful Syros. 🏖️ We'll present recent work on media cues for #disengagement & on #algorithmic recommendations in music streaming - watch this space!

chigreece.gr/2025/program...
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101 reasons to stop: A systematic review of media cues for disengagement - CHIGreece Conference 2025

In the current media environment, media platforms and the content therein are optimized for entertainment and a frictionless user experience to keep users engaged (e.g., Flayelle et al., 2023; Thorson...

chigreece.gr

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 22d

#MediaPsych25 was also an excellent opportunity to get feedback on our current project on #disconnection from #messaging. It seems that situational #norm salience is the main predictor of (dis)connection - stay tuned!

@mqrmobile.bsky.social @joebayer.bsky.social @leonardreinecke.bsky.social
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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 22d

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
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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 24d

😅

Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 25d

it's pronounced mad-ness

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 25d

textiety knocked me out

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