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View article: Conflicting Norms—How Norms of Disconnection and Availability Correlate With Digital Media Use Across Generations
Conflicting Norms—How Norms of Disconnection and Availability Correlate With Digital Media Use Across Generations Open
Digital disconnection has emerged as a response to constant connectivity and the perceived harms to well-being that technology overuse may cause in a digital society. Despite the apparent conflict with expectations of constant availability…
View article: Knowledge and Well-Being in the Digital Society: Towards a Research Agenda
Knowledge and Well-Being in the Digital Society: Towards a Research Agenda Open
Digital media have permeated all spheres of life in many world regions and drastically changed how people seek information to satisfy their everyday knowledge needs. Successfully fulfilling these needs can impact subjective well-being and …
View article: Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use
Everyday disconnection experiences: Exploring people’s understanding of digital well-being and management of digital media use Open
With the permeation of digital media into all spheres of life, individual-level efforts to manage information abundance and constant availability have become more common. To date, information on the prevalence of the motivations and strate…
View article: A Need for Considering Digital Inequality When Studying Social Media Use and Well-Being
A Need for Considering Digital Inequality When Studying Social Media Use and Well-Being Open
Digital inequality scholarship has consistently found that people from varying societal positions experience digital media in their lives in divergent ways. Therefore, the growing body of research examining the relationship of social media…
View article: The Chilling Effects of Digital Dataveillance: A Theoretical Model and an Empirical Research Agenda
The Chilling Effects of Digital Dataveillance: A Theoretical Model and an Empirical Research Agenda Open
People's sense of being subject to digital dataveillance can cause them to restrict their digital communication behavior. Such a chilling effect is essentially a form of self-censorship in everyday digital media use with the attendant risk…
View article: Digital well-being theory and research
Digital well-being theory and research Open
Digital well-being concerns individuals’ subjective well-being in a social environment where digital media are omnipresent. A general framework is developed to integrate empirical research toward a cumulative science of the impacts of digi…
View article: Making sense of algorithmic profiling: user perceptions on Facebook
Making sense of algorithmic profiling: user perceptions on Facebook Open
Algorithmic profiling has become increasingly prevalent in many social fields and practices, including finance, marketing, law, cultural consumption and production, and social engagement. Although researchers have begun to investigate algo…
View article: Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Pervasiveness Approach Beyond Addiction
Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Pervasiveness Approach Beyond Addiction Open
Over the past decade, smartphones have permeated all domains of adolescents’ everyday lives, with research dominated by “smartphone addiction.” This study compares one of the most used measures of smartphone addiction with a new alternativ…
View article: How long and what for? Tracking a nationally representative sample to quantify internet use
How long and what for? Tracking a nationally representative sample to quantify internet use Open
Testing communication theories requires a valid empirical basis, yet especially for usage time measures, retrospective self-reports have shown to be biased. This study draws on a unique data set of 923 Swiss internet users who had their in…
View article: How Long and What For? Tracking a Nationally Representative Sample to Quantify Internet Use
How Long and What For? Tracking a Nationally Representative Sample to Quantify Internet Use Open
Testing communication theories requires a valid empirical basis, yet especially for usage time measures, retrospective self-reports have shown to be biased. This study draws on a unique data set of 923 Swiss internet users who had their in…
View article: Book Review: The digital divide
Book Review: The digital divide Open
Perhaps because by the 2010s four in five people were using the Internet in many regions of the world, the digital divide appeared fixed. This book, however, is a reminder of the continued social relevance of inequalities in access to, use…
View article: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ssc-10.1177_08944393211018969 - Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Pervasiveness Approach Beyond Addiction
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ssc-10.1177_08944393211018969 - Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Pervasiveness Approach Beyond Addiction Open
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ssc-10.1177_08944393211018969 for Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Pervasiveness Approach Beyond Addiction by Tiziano Gerosa, Marco Gui and Moritz Büchi in Social Science Computer Review
View article: It’s still a thing: digital inequalities and their evolution in the information society
It’s still a thing: digital inequalities and their evolution in the information society Open
Internet diffusion has prompted research into differences in internet access, use and consequences. Exploiting the full potential of the ongoing digital transformation in all spheres of life-a proclaimed goal of governments and internation…
View article: TOWARDS THEORIES OF DIGITAL WELL-BEING
TOWARDS THEORIES OF DIGITAL WELL-BEING Open
How can we live a good life both thanks to and despite the constant use of digital media? The presented framework describes the nature of and connections between three relevant phenomena – digital media practices, harms/benefits, and well-…
View article: PERCEPTIONS OF ALGORITHMIC PROFILING ON FACEBOOK AND THEIR SOCIALIMPLICATIONS
PERCEPTIONS OF ALGORITHMIC PROFILING ON FACEBOOK AND THEIR SOCIALIMPLICATIONS Open
With every digital interaction, individuals are increasingly subject to algorithmic profiling, understood as the systematic and purposeful recording and classification of data related to individuals. Large Internet firms, such as Facebook …
View article: Digital Well-Being Theory and Research
Digital Well-Being Theory and Research Open
Digital well-being concerns individuals’ subjective well-being in a social environment where digital media are omnipresent. A general framework is developed to integrate empirical research toward a cumulative science of the impacts of digi…
View article: Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration
Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration Open
How predictable are life trajectories? We investigated this question with a scientific mass collaboration using the common task method; 160 teams built predictive models for six life outcomes using data from the Fragile Families and Child …
View article: Approaching socio-digital inequalities from a global perspective: challenges, possibilities and (in)compatibilities of a cross-country research project
Approaching socio-digital inequalities from a global perspective: challenges, possibilities and (in)compatibilities of a cross-country research project Open
This report summarises the main insights and questions discussed on 6 February 2020 as part of the Research Dialogues at the Media and Communications Department at LSE. This was panel discussion with the Dutch, Spanish, Swiss, UK and US pa…
View article: Internet use in Switzerland 2011-2019: Trends, attitudes and effects: Summary report World Internet Project - Switzerland
Internet use in Switzerland 2011-2019: Trends, attitudes and effects: Summary report World Internet Project - Switzerland Open
This report summarizes results from our representative Internet survey in 2019 and highlights major developments and trends of the past decade, based on data from our long-term biannual studies since 2011. The World Internet Project (WIP) …
View article: Internet Use in Switzerland 2011—2019: Trends, Attitudes and Effects. Summary Report from the World Internet Project – Switzerland
Internet Use in Switzerland 2011—2019: Trends, Attitudes and Effects. Summary Report from the World Internet Project – Switzerland Open
This report summarizes results from our representative Internet survey in 2019 and highlights major developments and trends of the past decade, based on data from our long-term biannual studies since 2011. The World Internet Project (WIP) …
View article: Digital Overuse and Subjective Well-Being in a Digitized Society
Digital Overuse and Subjective Well-Being in a Digitized Society Open
In modern everyday life, individuals experience an abundance of digital information and communication options, and pressure to use them effectively and constantly. While there are many benefits attainable through the use of digital informa…
View article: From Use to Overuse: Digital Inequality in the Age of Communication Abundance
From Use to Overuse: Digital Inequality in the Age of Communication Abundance Open
Public discourse about overuse as an undesired side effect of digital communication is growing. This article conceptually develops and empirically analyzes users’ perceived digital overuse (PDO) as a widespread social phenomenon sensitive …
View article: Digital Overuse and Subjective Well-Being in a Digitized Society
Digital Overuse and Subjective Well-Being in a Digitized Society Open
In modern everyday life, individuals experience an abundance of digital information and communication options, and pressure to use them effectively and constantly. While there are many benefits attainable through the use of digital informa…
View article: Older adults’ online information seeking and subjective well-being: The moderating role of internet skills
Older adults’ online information seeking and subjective well-being: The moderating role of internet skills Open
As increasing numbers of older adults incorporate the Internet into their lives, it is important to go beyond studying whether being an Internet user makes a difference for this population by examining how specific uses and skills relate t…
View article: Digital footprints: an emerging dimension of digital inequality
Digital footprints: an emerging dimension of digital inequality Open
Purpose This conceptual contribution is based on the observation that digital inequalities literature has not sufficiently considered digital footprints as an important social differentiator. The purpose of the paper is to inspire current …
View article: How social well-being is affected by digital inequalities
How social well-being is affected by digital inequalities Open
Digital inequalities have real consequences for individuals’ everyday lives—this basic assumption drives digital inequality research. Recent efforts have focused on tangible benefits of online engagement, yet subjective quality of life mea…