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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 16d

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 · 14d

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 · 14d

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 · 14d

(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 · 14d

(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 · 14d

(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 · 14d

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 · 14d

💡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 · 20d

Gut Ding will Weile haben (happy googling)

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 20d

important work!

Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 20d

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 · 20d

#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 · 20d

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 · 23d

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 23d

it's pronounced mad-ness

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 23d

textiety knocked me out

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 29d

Doug will present our current project on digital #disconnection discourses at the #MediaPsych25 conference this Thursday! @mepsy.bsky.social

@chrdrn.bsky.social @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @dougaparry.bsky.social

Doug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 29d

From r/nosurf to #digitaldetox: A computational analysis of discourses of technology resistance and digital well-being

@chrdrn.bsky.social, @klingelhoefer.bsky.social, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social

We will present preliminary results from our analysis of Twitter & Reddit data.

📆 11.09, 16h15, LK051

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Dr. Melanie Leidecker-Sandmann @leidecker-sandmann.bsky.social · Sep 8

🔥Hot off the press: Studie zur Repräsentation weiblicher Forschender in den Medien 👉
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
📰 Inhaltsanalyse: 4.860 Medienartikel
👩‍🔬 Nur 18% der zitierten Expert:innen sind Frauen
📊 Frauenanteil in der Forschung: ca. 31%
➡️ Deutliche Sichtbarkeitslücke für weibliche Forschende

Zwei männliche und eine weibliche Silhouette. Im Vordergrund Mikrophone wie bei einer Pressekonferenz

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Max Schindler @maxschindler.bsky.social · Sep 4

Guten Morgen, hier ist der zweite Teil Juckt?! zur Studie von @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @aliciagilbert.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social

vm.tiktok.com/ZNdqJo91c/

Viel Spaß ☺️

TikTok - Make Your Day

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Julius Klingelhoefer @klingelhoefer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very cool breakdown of our study on the motivations of everyday digital disconnection in this TikTok Video (in German):

Max Schindler @maxschindler.bsky.social · Sep 2

Guten Morgen, die neuste Folge Juckt?! ist online: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdVx1LFP/

Heute geht es um eine Studie von @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @aliciagilbert.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social

Der zweite Teil kommt Donnerstag - viel Spaß ☺️

TikTok - Make Your Day

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · Sep 2

Spannend und wichtig! Habe es mal der UB zur Anschaffung vorgeschlagen (:

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · Sep 2

coole Sache 🫡 😀

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Max Schindler @maxschindler.bsky.social · Sep 2

Guten Morgen, die neuste Folge Juckt?! ist online: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdVx1LFP/

Heute geht es um eine Studie von @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @aliciagilbert.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social

Der zweite Teil kommt Donnerstag - viel Spaß ☺️

TikTok - Make Your Day

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Rebekka Kreling @rkreling.bsky.social · Sep 1

Longitudinal evidence on media entertainment effects, anyone? New paper out w/ @leonardreinecke.bsky.social looking at links between entertainment use and meaning making daily, weekly, & over 6 months. Two studies, 1,872 participants, 15,290 observations. Summary 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0093...

Entertainment Contributes to Adaptive Coping: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Interplay Between Hedonic and Eudaimonic Entertainment, Escapism, and Meaning Making - Rebekka J. Kreling, Leonard Rei...

Traditionally, research has focused on investigating short-term effects of entertainment media use. This paper, however, takes a salutogenetic perspective in ex...

doi.org

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