First page: zmad008 Abstract: There is a popular concern that adolescents’ social media use, especially via smartphones, leads to the delay of intended, potentially more important tasks. Automatic social media use and frequent phone checking may especially contribute to task delay. Prior research has investigated this hypothesis through between-person associations. We advance the literature by additionally examining within-person and person-specific associations of automatic social media use and mobile phone checking frequency with each other and task delay. Preregistered hypotheses were tested with multilevel modeling on data from 3 weeks of experience sampling among N = 312 adolescents (ages 13–15), including T = 22,809 assessments. More automatic social media use and more frequent phone checking were, on average, associated with more task delay at the within-person level. However, heterogeneity analyses found these positive associations to be significant for only a minority of adolescents. We discuss implications for the media habit concept and adolescents’ self-regulation. PubDate: Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jcmc/zmad008 Issue No:Vol. 28, No. 3 (2023)
First page: zmad012 Abstract: This is a correction to: Jeremy Foote, Aaron Shaw, Benjamin Mako Hill, Communication networks do not predict success in attempts at peer production, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2023, zmad002, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad002 PubDate: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jcmc/zmad012 Issue No:Vol. 28, No. 3 (2023)
First page: zmad006 Abstract: Video-mediated communication (VMC) has become particularly important for geographically dispersed families. Drawing on a 2-year video-based ethnographic study of under-resourced Chinese rural-to-urban migrant parents and their left-behind children, this article captures on-site distant parent–child VMC. Applying qualitative video analysis to study video calls, this article focuses on how people “choreograph” these video calls and investigates the improvised composition of actions and activities in mediated environment. The findings reveal that people coordinate the materiality, amplify the emotionality, and underpin the morality of love to sustain intimate relationships. Multigenerational parties, including parents, children, and grandparents, actively manage their connections through the moment-by-moment unfolding of choreographed actions in VMC. This study also highlights the bittersweet experiences, including the tension, contradictions, and asymmetries, among migrant parents, children, and the caregivers. PubDate: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jcmc/zmad006 Issue No:Vol. 28, No. 3 (2023)
First page: zmad002 Abstract: Although peer production has created valuable information goods like Wikipedia, the GNU/Linux operating system, and Reddit, the majority of attempts at peer production achieve very little. In work groups and teams, coordination and social integration—manifested via dense, integrative communication networks—predict success. We hypothesize that the conditions in which new peer production communities operate make communication problems common and make coordination and integration more difficult, and that variation in the structure of project communication networks will predict project success. In this article, we measure communication networks for 999 early-stage peer production wikis. We assess whether communities displaying network markers of coordination and social integration are more productive and long-lasting. Contrary to our expectations, we find a very weak relationship between communication structure and collaborative performance. We propose that technology may serve as a partial substitute for communication in coordinating work and integrating newcomers in peer production. PubDate: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/jcmc/zmad002 Issue No:Vol. 28, No. 3 (2023)
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