Mobile Media & Communication

Papers
(The median citation count of Mobile Media & Communication is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mobilizing care? WeChat for older adults’ digital kinship and informal care in Wuhan households142
Mobile social media: The challenges and opportunities continue39
Is life brighter when your phone is not? The efficacy of a grayscale smartphone intervention addressing digital well-being37
Software presentation: Rtoot: Collecting and Analyzing Mastodon Data31
The role of motivation in the digital divide: The moderating effect of device access25
Influence of different parental mediation strategies on adolescents’ hedonistic smartphone use: Parent–adolescent reports21
Contact tracing apps, nationalism, and users with disability in the Global South: The faith in state and collective objective18
Streets as experienced through the body, mind, and screen: The smartphone and the pedestrian's engagement with an urban public space18
Book readers in the digital age: Reading practices and media technologies16
Psychological perspectives on mobile media: A flyover review15
Disciplining the Akratic user: Constructing digital (un) wellness13
COVID-19 now and then: Reflections on mobile communication and the pandemic11
Shaping infrastructural futures: The International Telecommunication Union’s visions for mobile communications and the anticipatory politics of 5G standardization11
Book Review: Left to our own devices: Coping with insecure work in a digital age by Ticona Julia10
Book Review: The Politics of Dating Apps: Gender, Sexuality, and Emergent Publics in Urban China by Lik Sam Chan10
Book Reviews: Germaine Halegoua, The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place9
Gluten-free apps, disability, and travel: Developing a critical heuristic for the implementation of mobile apps9
Situational boundary conditions of digital stress: Goal conflict and autonomy frustration make smartphone use more stressful9
Mobile media in China: Media practice as a research orientation8
Book Review: Regulating Platforms by Terry Flew8
The effects of fragmented and sticky smartphone use on distraction and task delay8
Doing Mobile Media and Communication scholarship in different keys: Sounding out structure and integration in the field8
“I am not human without my phone”: How the socio-cultural realities of Liberia shape Liberian mobile youth culture8
Your phone ruins our lunch: Attitudes, norms, and valuing the interaction predict phone use and phubbing in dyadic social interactions7
Software presentation: MeTag Analyze and MeTag App media diary software6
Spotivey: A web application for simplified use of the Spotify application programming interface in online questionnaire studies6
Escaping the rough life of the street: Roofless people and mobile social media6
Studying problems, not problematic usage: Do mobile checking habits increase procrastination and decrease well-being?6
Selectively localized: Temporal and visual structure of smartphone screen activity across media environments5
Ear buddies: A moderated mediation model of the effect of mobility on parasocial relationships with podcast hosts5
Book Review: Jeremy W. Morris and Sarah Murray (Eds), Appified: Culture in the age of apps5
Disentangling the good, the bad, and the neutral of co-present mobile phone use: A new perspective on “partner phubbing”5
A bird's-eye view of phubbing: How adult observations of phone use impact judgments, epistemic trust, and interpersonal trust4
Book Review: TikTok: Creativity and Culture in Short Video by D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Jing Zeng, and Patrick Wikström4
Book review: Ana Serrano Tellería (ed.), Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication4
You are not alone: Smartphone use, friendship satisfaction, and anxiety during the COVID-19 crisis4
Mobile phone use before and during the COVID-19 pandemic – a panel study of older adults in seven countries4
Observations on mobile communication and well-being research4
W(h)ither the device divide? Changing relationships between personal computer or mobile device with online activities4
Digital detox: An effective solution in the smartphone era? A systematic literature review3
The self-reinforcing effect of device and usage digital divides: A longitudinal panel study from China3
Sharing is caring: The positive role of smartphone co-use in social dynamics3
Overestimating or underestimating communication findings? Comparing self-reported with log mobile data by data donation method3
WhatsApp group as a shared resource for coping with political violence: The case of mothers living in an ongoing conflict area3
Can mothers avoid guilt about their smartphone usage behavior? Effects of the availability norm and goal conflict on guilt, recovery, and accomplishment experiences3
Mobile phone paradox: A two-path model connecting mobile phone use and feeling of loneliness for Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong3
Book Review: It Happened on Tinder: Reflections and Studies on Internet-Infused Dating by Amir Hetsroni and Meriç Tuncez (Eds.)3
Wearable witnesses: Deathlogging and framing wearable technology data in “Fitbit murders”3
Book Review: Email and the Everyday: Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor by Esther Milne2
On the becoming of an academic home for research into the intersection of mobile devices and news2
The effect of “Housing First” on mobile and digital media usage by people experiencing homelessness: A program evaluation based on a randomized controlled trial in Spain2
Domesticating technology: Learning from the use of mobile phone of small women rural entrepreneurs in India during COVID-192
Getting hooked on mobile games: Strengthening purchase intentions towards mobile games using investment model and parasocial interactions2
Book Review: Young children's play practices with digital tablets by Isabel Froés2
Reluctant mobilism: Forced displacement2
“Wayfearing” and the city: Exploring how experiential fear of crime frames the mobilities of women students at a city-based university using a bespoke chatbot app2
Context matters: Exploring the mediated nature of digital service provision within homelessness organizations2
The smartphone between the present and the future: Five changes2
Book Review: Research exposed: How empirical social science gets done in the digital age by Eszter Hargittai (Ed.)2
Corrigendum to Affordances-driven ethics for research on mobile instant messaging: Notes from the Global South2
Playing remotely: The COVID-19 pandemic and mobile locative gaming in Northeast Brazil2
The relational ontology of mobile touchscreens and the body: Ambient proprioception and risk during COVID-192
A galaxy of apps: Mobile app reliance and the indirect influence on political participation through political discussion and trust2
How do smartphone users access the internet? An exploratory analysis of mobile web browser use2
Digital disparities beyond the stably housed: Researching global homelessness and mobile media2
The origins of mobile communication research1
What happens next? The ever-dreaded “knock” and mobile access instability for vehicle residents1
The structure of knowledge and dynamics of scholarly communication in mobile media and communication research, 2013–20221
The rise of chronic reachability and the accelerated, flexible society: The social construction of the pager, 1987–19991
Book Review: Aditya Deshbandhu, Gaming Culture(s) in India: Digital Play in Everyday Life1
Tethered compliance: Exploring the role of the smartphone in online civic engagement among low-income US young people through two pandemic-era case studies1
Dance the Night Away: How Automatic TikTok Use Creates Pre-Sleep Cognitive Arousal and Daytime Fatigue1
The Tinder Games: Collective mobile dating app use and gender conforming behavior1
Google Maps’ COVID-19 layer as an interface for pandemic life1
Pilgrimage to Fátima and Santiago after COVID: Dis/connection in the post-digital age1
Changes in the editorial team1
Datafied mobile markets: Measuring control over apps, data accesses, and third-party services1
Exploring Kenyans’ interactions with misinformation on WhatsApp1
Who “phubs”? A systematic meta-analytic review of phubbing predictors1
Mobile work, mobility, and mobile devices: Responding to a societal shift1
Parental technoference and the impact on familial relationships1
Book Review: Homelessness and mobile communication: Precariously connected by Humphry Justine1
Where horizontal and vertical surveillances meet: Sense-making of US COVID-19 contact-tracing apps during a health crisis1
Book Review: Bodies and Mobile Media by Ingrid Richardson & Rowan Wilken1
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