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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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Rebekka Kreling @rkreling.bsky.social · Sep 1

Really happy and proud to see this one finally out in the world. It was quite the effort. Huge thanks goes out to my fantastic co-author @leonardreinecke.bsky.social!

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Rebekka Kreling @rkreling.bsky.social · Sep 1

Take away: Entertainment can give impulses for meaning making processes beyond individual usage episodes, but we need to know more about time frames and accumulation of such effects – both through theory and more longitudinal studies 🤓

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Rebekka Kreling @rkreling.bsky.social · Sep 1

Key findings:
📈 Positive within-person effects of both hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment use on meaning making daily and weekly, but not over 6 months.
📉 Negative effects of escapist media use on meaning making across all time intervals.

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Rebekka Kreling @rkreling.bsky.social · Sep 1

Short-term effects of entertainment on mood/recovery have been studied for a while – but what about longer lasting effects? We propose beneficial effects of hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment on meaning making via positive emotions and vicarious experiences of adversity.

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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...

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Julius Klingelhoefer @klingelhoefer.bsky.social · Aug 22

To investigate media effects, do we have to think more clearly about time ⌚? Our new publication in the 🎉*Journal of Communication*🎉 investigates how our conceptualizations of time can affect our conclusions: doi.org/10.1093/joc/... (1/6)

Possible futures all at once: time frame and time lag in short-term longitudinal media effects research on well-being

Abstract. When assessing media effects, we seldom consider how they change over time. Especially with the prevalence of smartphone use as short-lived, frag

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Lara Wolfers @larawolfers.bsky.social · Jul 14

Finally :) Preprint of Susanne Baumgartner and my paper Short but still valid: Validating Single-Item Measures for Key Communication Science Constructs for Experience Sampling Research.
In a 5-Study procedure, we assess the validity of in total 21 constructs osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Lukas Otto @lukotto.bsky.social · Mar 12

🚀 The GESIS AppKit is live! 🚀

Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested?

✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · Mar 3

I'm hiring! I'm looking for 1️⃣ pre-doc and 2️⃣ post-docs.

If you're fascinated by media effects, quantitative methods, and open science, please consider applying 🙂

International applications welcome!

Application Pre-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Application Post-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

About the position
• 3-year Ph.D. position (60%, paid according to cantonal salary scheme)
• Can be extended by another 17 months
• Workplace is Zurich

What will be your main tasks?
• Conduct a Ph.D. thesis in the field of communication, media psychology, and media effects
• Publish in leading academic journals; present at conferences; engage in outreach
• Teach courses on media effects, methods, and statistics at BA and MA levels
• Take part in doctoral training programmes offered by UZH and IKMZ
• Participate in organisational or administrative tasks as required

What should you bring to the team?
• Master’s degree in communication science, psychology, or a related discipline
• Strong interest in research on media effects, including topics such as social media, well-being, privacy, AI, or media effects theory
• Expertise in quantitative research methods
• Proficiency in (or openness to learn) R, open science practices, and advanced statistics
• Proficiency in English; knowledge of German is desirable but not mandatory

What do we offer you?
• Great background and support for high quality research
• Much freedom to develop your own research interest within the topics of the division
• Dynamic and supportive team with a collegial and inspiring working atmosphere
• Excellent track record of the department in academic career development

How to apply
Please send the following documents as a single PDF file using UZH’s job portal (see link in post):
• Letter of motivation (including ideas for your Ph.D. project; max. 2 pages)
• Your CV (including a list of scientific publications and presentations, if applicable)
• MA thesis or equivalent, research publications if already applicable
• Copies of degrees and relevant transcripts

Deadline for applications is March 16, 2025
Applications arriving later will also be considered if no candidate has been selected until then
The position starts in April or by agreement

About the position
• 3-year postdoctoral position (80%, paid according to cantonal salary scheme)
• One position can be extended up to 3 years, the other up to 6 years
• Workplace is Zurich

What will be your main tasks?
• Conduct research in the field of communication, media psychology, and media effects
• Lead your own projects and collaborate in team projects
• Publish in leading academic journals; present at conferences; engage in outreach
• Teach courses on media effects, methods, and statistics at BA, MA, and Ph.D. levels
• Take part in supporting and training predocs at the division
• Engage in third party funding activities
• Participate in organisational or administrative tasks as required

What should you bring to the team?
• Doctoral degree in communication science, psychology, or a related discipline
• Strong interest in research on media effects, including topics such as social media, well-being, privacy, AI, or media effects theory
• Expertise in quantitative research methods
• Proficiency in (or openness to learn) R, open science practices, and advanced statistics
• Proficiency in English; knowledge of German is desirable but not mandatory

What do we offer you?
• Great background and support for high quality research
• Much freedom to develop your own research interest within the topics of the division
• Dynamic and supportive team with a collegial and inspiring working atmosphere

Please send the following documents as a single PDF file using UZH’s job portal (see link in post):
• Letter of motivation (including ideas for future research projects; max. 2 pages)
• Your CV (including a list of scientific publications and conference presentations)
• Full-texts of up to three sample publications & PhD dissertation
• Copies of degrees and relevant transcripts

Deadline for applications is March 16, 2025
Applications arriving later will also be considered if no candidate has been selected until then
The position starts in April or by agreement

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Sarah Lutz @sarahlutz.bsky.social · Jan 29

📢 Publication Alert!
Excited to share that our latest research, co-authored with
@chrbuettner.bsky.social, has just been published! 🎉 #MediaPsychology

🔓 #OpenAccess via: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“This Message was Deleted”: The Psychological Consequences of Being Out of the Loop During Messenger Use

Many messenger services, such as WhatsApp or Snapchat, offer the option of deleting messages after they have been sent, leaving a so-called delete notification in the chat. Especially in group chat...

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · Jan 28

Our disconnection project won a top paper #award at the @rezfo.bsky.social media use and effects conference last week! 🎀✨🪩 Happy times with my coauthors @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social

➡️ Find the preprint of the study at osf.io/preprints/ps...

A photo of the coauthors Julius Klingelhoefer, Alicia Gilbert, and Adrian Meier with their top paper certificate.

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Felix Dietrich @felix-dietrich.de · Jan 20

Ever wondered what researchers beyond #commsky have to say about autonomy in digital technology use (e.g., affordances, situations, context)?

Check out our interdisciplinary, large scale (computational) scoping review w/ @anishaarenz.bsky.social @leonardreinecke.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/iwc/...

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Rebekka Kreling @rkreling.bsky.social · Jan 17

Sounds great! And yes, I had a different paper accepted, so I'll be there :)

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Rebekka Kreling @rkreling.bsky.social · Jan 16

Thank you, Sara - would love to hear your thoughts on this!

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Rebekka Kreling @rkreling.bsky.social · Jan 16

What content do people watch when experiencing stressors? We matched data donations w/ content descriptions & linked them to diary surveys for an answer! Sadly rejected at #ica25 but proud of this collab w/ @felix-dietrich.de, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social, @leonardreinecke.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/n2z2

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