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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
“I am not human without my phone”: How the socio-cultural realities of Liberia shape Liberian mobile youth culture50
Mobilizing care? WeChat for older adults’ digital kinship and informal care in Wuhan households36
Software presentation: MeTag Analyze and MeTag App media diary software31
Contact tracing apps, nationalism, and users with disability in the Global South: The faith in state and collective objective23
Disentangling the good, the bad, and the neutral of co-present mobile phone use: A new perspective on “partner phubbing”19
Domesticating Smartphone in Distance: Family Politics and Technological Governance in Chinese Left-Behind Children's Families During COVID-1917
Mobile mutuality of being: WhatsApp and kinship at the top of the world17
Parental technoference and the impact on familial relationships15
On the becoming of an academic home for research into the intersection of mobile devices and news13
Exploring Kenyans’ interactions with misinformation on WhatsApp13
“It's one of the most important things we carry for us”: How mobile hotspots support people experiencing homelessness13
Datafied mobile markets: Measuring control over apps, data accesses, and third-party services12
Predicting the next decade of mobile communication studies research: More mobile media, fewer mobile phones11
Life fits home: Exploring people's experience with a COVID-19 tracing app in Turkey through a qualitative study11
Digital borders in spatial-temporal mobility: Social inclusion and exclusion of Chinese migrant students in Macao11
Oh, no, Pokémon GO! Media panic and fear of mobility in news coverage of an augmented reality phenomenon11
Book Review: Critical Perspectives on Open Development: Empirical Interrogation of Theory Construction by Arul Chib, Caitlin M. Bentley & Matthew L. Smith10
COVID-19 surveillance in Israeli press: Spatiality, mobility, and control10
Proxy and learning back-feeding: How older adults use smartphones in China10
Shaping infrastructural futures: The International Telecommunication Union’s visions for mobile communications and the anticipatory politics of 5G standardization9
Creating speculative mobile media futures with older adults in Australia9
Book Review: Left to our own devices: Coping with insecure work in a digital age by Ticona Julia9
A global sense of work place? rethinking the (dis)locality of digital nomads9
Corrigendum to Affordances-driven ethics for research on mobile instant messaging: Notes from the Global South8
Mobile work, mobility, and mobile devices: Responding to a societal shift8
Psychological perspectives on mobile media: A flyover review8
Digital disparities beyond the stably housed: Researching global homelessness and mobile media6
Reluctant mobilism: Forced displacement6
Wearable witnesses: Deathlogging and framing wearable technology data in “Fitbit murders”6
Influence of professional mobile device usage on Work/Family Border Theory5
Returning to and continuing the traditional Chinese family system via WeChat: Digitally mediated families in liquid China5
Pilgrimage to Fátima and Santiago after COVID: Dis/connection in the post-digital age5
Book Review: Information and communications technology in support of migration by Babak Akhgar5
What we do in the shadows: The consumption of mobile messaging by social media mobile apps in the twilight of the social networking era5
Whatsapp Explorer : A data donation tool to facilitate research on WhatsApp5
Digital ageism? Analyzing women's depictions on TikTok through user-generated content under #aging and #antiaging5
Nationwide research on the uses and motivations of dating apps by young adults in the cultural environment of Turkey5
Book Review: It Happened on Tinder: Reflections and Studies on Internet-Infused Dating by Amir Hetsroni and Meriç Tuncez (Eds.) Amir Hetsroni and Meriç Tuncez (Eds.), 5
Finding a home in or through mobile phones: Access and usage patterns among homeless women in shelter-homes of India4
How and when do mobile media demands impact well-being? Explicating the Integrative Model of Mobile Media Use and Need Experiences (IM 3 UNE)4
Book Review: The Psychology of Phubbing (Springer Briefs in Psychology) by Yeslam Al-Saggaf Al-SaggafYeslam, The Psychology of Phubbing (Springer Briefs in Psychology), 4
Software presentation: Rtoot: Collecting and Analyzing Mastodon Data4
The transnationality of mobile media and contemporary racisms: A future research agenda4
Situational boundary conditions of digital stress: Goal conflict and autonomy frustration make smartphone use more stressful4
Disciplining the Akratic user: Constructing digital (un) wellness4
Doing Mobile Media and Communication scholarship in different keys: Sounding out structure and integration in the field4
Mobile media in China: Media practice as a research orientation4
Book Review: Negotiating control: Organizations and mobile communication by Keri K. Stephens Keri K. Stephens, Negotiating control: Organizations and mobile communicatio4
(Im)mobility and performance of emotions: Chinese international students’ difficult journeys to home during the COVID-19 pandemic4
COVID-19 now and then: Reflections on mobile communication and the pandemic4
Book Review: Homelessness and mobile communication: Precariously connected by Humphry Justine3
Digital carceral mobilities: Mobility and smuggled mobile technologies in prisons3
Book Review: Bodies and Mobile Media by Ingrid Richardson & Rowan Wilken3
The relational ontology of mobile touchscreens and the body: Ambient proprioception and risk during COVID-193
Tethered compliance: Exploring the role of the smartphone in online civic engagement among low-income US young people through two pandemic-era case studies3
Appified homelessness: Locative media apps as tools for the prevention of homelessness in Poland3
Can mothers avoid guilt about their smartphone usage behavior? Effects of the availability norm and goal conflict on guilt, recovery, and accomplishment experiences3
What happens next? The ever-dreaded “knock” and mobile access instability for vehicle residents3
The origins of mobile communication research3
Book Review: Visual methods in the field: Photography for the social sciences by Terence Heng Terence Heng, Visual methods in the field: Photography for the social scien2
Affordances-driven ethics for research on mobile instant messaging: Notes from the Global South2
A double-edged sword? The role of mobile media in press freedom in Pakistan2
Preserving the history of mobile gaming—a review of The Retro Mobile Gaming Database2
Dance the Night Away: How Automatic TikTok Use Creates Pre-Sleep Cognitive Arousal and Daytime Fatigue2
Review of F-R-O-G telegram scraper2
Who “phubs”? A systematic meta-analytic review of phubbing predictors2
Navigating mobile technologies: Older adults’ mobile, digital, and non-digital strategies for enhancing subjective well-being2
The second-level smartphone divide: A typology of smartphone use based on frequency of use, skills, and types of activities2
Self-helped digital disconnection on Google Play2
Book Review: Qualitative research using social media by Bouvier Gwen & Rasmussen Joel2
Parental phubbing, loneliness, and adolescent materialism: A cross-lagged panel study1
You are not alone: Smartphone use, friendship satisfaction, and anxiety during the COVID-19 crisis1
The R package rtoot1
Networks in motion: The alliances of information communication technologies and mobility technologies during the 1918 influenza pandemic1
Book Review: Young children's play practices with digital tablets by Isabel Froés1
Perceived vs. observed mHealth behavior: A naturalistic investigation of tracking apps and daily movement1
Book Review: Media Use in Digital Everyday Life by Brita Ytre-Arne Brita Ytre-Arne, Media Use in Digital Everyday Life , Emerald: Bingley,1
Professionally phubbed: A mixed-method experiment measuring the effects of phone snubbing behavior during a job interview1
Business as usual? Taking stock of submissions and reviews two years after the first coronavirus lockdowns1
Book Review: Wi-Fi by Thomas Julian, Wilken Rowan and Rennie Ellie JulianThomasRowanWilkenEllieRennie, Wi-Fi, Cambridge: Polity Press; 2021; vii+194 pp. ISBN 150952990X,1
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 Spain1
Book Review: News in their pockets: A cross-city comparative study of mobile news consumption in Asia by Ran Wei & Ven-hwei Lo1
Field challenges1
Book Review: Cell Tower by Steven E. Jones1
Technologies of inclusion and marginalization: Mobile phones and multiple exclusion homeless women1
Changes in the editorial team1
Mechanisms of maternal and paternal phubbing on adolescents’ self-control: The attenuating effect of having a sibling1
Book Review: Email and the Everyday: Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor by Esther Milne1
Book Review: Regulating Platforms by Terry Flew1
The rise of chronic reachability and the accelerated, flexible society: The social construction of the pager, 1987–19991
Software presentation: The retro mobile gaming database1
Mobile communication research in 15 top-tier journals, 2006–2020: An updated review of trends, advances, and characteristics1
A multifaceted nudge-based intervention to reduce smartphone use: Findings from a randomized cross-over trial1
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