Use Of Mobile Media Research Articles

Multitasking as multisensory behavior: Revisiting media multitasking in the perspective of media ecology theory

Media multitasking has become an inseparable part of the media routine for many Internet users as it is being retribalized, as a multisensory computer-mediated behavior, in the mobile media age. Guided by McLuhan's media ecology theory, this study examined the hierarchical relationships between media multitasking and media generations, mobile media use, and need for cognition among users in the United States and China (N = 1,340). After gender was controlled, media generations (defined as those growing up with or without the pervasive use of mobile media) was directly associated with media multitasking. Moreover, mobile media power use mediated the relationship between media generations and media multitasking. The personality construct of need for cognition was also found to play a critical role in performing multitasking. These findings indicate that mobile media technologies are reactivating multiple human senses in multitaskers, which might be a result of the evolutionary process spearheaded by the ubiquity of mobile media technologies. Thus, it is high time to revisit media multitasking as a new normal and access it as a multisensory behavior. McLuhan's media ecology theory helps understand the evolution of media multitasking, which may no longer be as simple as a technology distraction to users.

Development of Android-Based Interactive Physics Mobile Learning Media (IPMLM) with Scaffolding Learning Approach to Improve HOTS of high school students in Indonesia

The objectives of this study are to: a) Produce an Android-based Interactive Physics Mobile Learning Media (IPMLM) that is eligible for improving Higher-order Thinking Skills (HOTS) of high school students; b) Determine the effectiveness of the use of Android-based interactive physics mobile learning media with a scaffolding learning approach in improving Higher-order Thinking Skills (HOTS) for high school students. The development procedure in this study was modified from the 4D development model (defining, designing, developing, disseminating). The research subjects were 1070 high school students in five regencies/cities, they are Sleman Regency, Bengkulu City, Pontianak City, Kupang City, and Bima City. In each city was chosen four schools for extensive trial and limited trial. The products developed were Interactive Physics Mobile Learning Media (IPMLM) applications, lesson plan, student worksheets, higher-order thinking skills test instruments in the form of reasonable multiple-choice questions, student questionnaire responses towards media and learning activities as well as validation sheets and product eligibility. The technique of analyzing the data of empirical test questions used item response theory analysis by looking at the compatibility of items with the model based on the INFIT MNSQ (infit mean square) value. Extensive test data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Inferential statistics were performed using the ANAVA mixed design test with a significance level of α = 0.05. The results show that a) Android-based interactive physics mobile learning media applications and learning devices are appropriate to be used to improve higher-order thinking skills; b) the use of android-based interactive physics mobile learning media (IPMLM) with an effective scaffolding learning approach in improving higher-order thinking skills. The effective contribution of the experimental group in increasing the ability of HOTS is 84.80%. The effective contribution of the control group that uses learning tools with the direct learning assisted by Physics textbooks in increasing HOTS ability is 55.50%.

An Analysis on Mobile and Interactive Media Use by Young Children: The Good, the Bad and the Unknown

The introduction of mobile media to children of very young ages continues to be a topic of discussion in many academic and professional circles. Over time, the suggested guidelines specific to children and interaction with mobile and interactive technology have changed, yet there are still some unknowns regarding the impact of replacing actual human interaction with interactive devices. While there are certainly benefits to having children exposed to these forms of technology, there are potential drawbacks. This current opinion article seeks provide a narrative regarding current work that is related to children and their engagement with interactive technology.

Analysis of Use of Mobile Media: Reasons of Use and Degree of Satisfaction Among Student Users of Mobile Media at Moscow Universities

What is the role of mobile media in public life today? What is its origin? How did it evolve, and how efficient is it in our lives? These are all surging topics research literature in today’s virtually interconnected world. There is no shortage of researchers in the modern world now focusing solely on how mobile media’s role in the world has taken shape, and how powerful it is, what impact it has on humanity, and so on.In this study, before considering reasons of use and the degree of satisfaction students at Moscow universities find in their usage of mobile media in particular, then pans out to discuss how this reflects on more general trends in the usage of mobile media in today’s world, I consider the general picture of the process of using mobile media and examine more closely one particular part of the complex new process of mass communication – analysis the audience of mobile media and the general picture of the process of using mobile media at Moscow universities.

IMPLEMENTASI DAN EFEKTIFITAS PENGGUNAAN MOBILE LEARNING TERHADAP HASIL BELAJAR MAHASISWA PROGRAM STUDI SISTEM INFORMASI STIKOM UYELINDO KUPANG

This research was made aiming to implement and improve the effectiveness of learning media through mobile-based mobile learning for all courses in Uyelindo Kupang STIKOM information system students. The research target to be achieved is an additional learning media that is interesting and easy to use so that it can increase student interest and student achievement. This research will discuss how to design, develop and evaluate the effectiveness of using Mobile Learning applications. This application is made so that students can easily access a course material using the Mobile Learning application by Smartphone and also to increase the effectiveness of conducting online lectures at the Uyelindo Kupang STIKOM information system study program. To measure the effectiveness of the use of mobile learning it is necessary to test among them, from the results of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test using SPSS 16 it is found that the research subjects are normally distributed and based on the results of the Paired Samples Test t-test it is known that the significant value is 0,000> 0,05. While t-count = -11,142 and for t-table at a significant level ? = 5% (0.05) with degrees of freedom (df) n-1 or 50-1 = 49. Two-sided testing (significance = 0.025) results are obtained for t-table = 2 , 00958 with a significant level of 0.025. In the result t-count < t-table (-11.142 <2, 00958) then H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. So that the use of mobile learning media can improve student learning outcomes at the Uyelindo Kupang STIKOM information system.

Impact of Adolescents' Screen Time and Nocturnal Mobile Phone-Related Awakenings on Sleep and General Health Symptoms: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Nocturnal media use has been linked to adolescents’ sleeping problems in cross-sectional studies which do not address reverse causality. To prospectively assess the new occurrence of sleep problems or health symptoms in relation to electronic media use and nocturnal mobile phone use, we used data from the longitudinal Swiss HERMES (Health Effects Related to Mobile phone usE in adolescentS) cohort on 843 children from 7th to 9th grade. Logistic regression models were fitted and adjusted for relevant confounders. Adolescents reporting at baseline and follow-up at least one nocturnal awakenings from their own mobile phone per month were more likely to have developed restless sleep (Odds Ratio (OR): 5.66, 95% Confidence Interval: 2.24–14.26) and problems falling asleep (3.51, 1.05–11.74) within one year compared to adolescents without nocturnal awakenings. A similar pattern was observed for developing symptoms, although somewhat less pronounced in terms of the magnitude of the odds ratios. With respect to high screen time at baseline and follow-up, associations were observed for falling asleep (2.41, 1.41–4.13), exhaustibility (1.76, 1.02–3.03), lack of energy (1.76, 1.04–2.96) and lack of concentration (2.90, 1.55–5.42). Our results suggest a detrimental effect of screen time and mobile phone-related awakenings on sleep problems and related health symptoms. However, the results should be interpreted cautiously with respect to adolescents’ natural changes in circadian rhythm, which may coincidence with an increase in mobile phone and media use.

Mobile media use by infants and toddlers

This study examined mobile media (MM) use patterns by infants and toddlers (36 months old and younger, N = 326) from a family media ecology perspective. Parents' frequency of MM use, their motives for child's use, and child's age predicted children's total MM use. Parents with stronger educational motivations were more likely to use MM together with their child and less likely to have the child use MM alone. Less parent education, more non-educational motivations and greater child behavioral dysregulation predicted greater child use of MM alone. Parents with predominantly non-educational motivations were likely to provide higher levels of child MM use alone when their children had greater behavioral dysregulation. Results suggest family media ecology relates to the amount and the social context of young children's MM use; i.e., as a teaching tool together with a parent, or as a parenting tool to cope with children's more challenging behavior.

Effects of mobile information-seeking on the intention to obtain reproductive cancer screening among chinese women: testing an integrative model

Because the cognitive perspective has often been used in health behavior research, the influence of information and communication technology has been neglected although it plays a significant role in healthcare in the increasingly mobile age. The aim of this study is to test an integrative model including technological and cognitive variables to demonstrate that perceived usefulness and ease of mobile media use, health consciousness, and risk perception predict reproductive cancer information-seeking through mobile media and the intention to obtain cancer screening. The analyses of data collected in a survey of 1,065 young and middle-aged women in Nanjing, China showed that the cognitive variables of health consciousness and risk perception directly predicted cancer screening. In addition, the cognitive variables and the technological variables (i.e., perceived usefulness and ease of mobile media use, respectively) indirectly predicted cancer screening through mobile information-seeking. The implications of these results are discussed.

Techniques of the tactile body: A cultural phenomenology of toddlers and mobile touchscreens

A key dimension of young children’s mobile media engagement and play centres on their embodied relations, and how these are shaped with and through the interfaces, materiality and mobility of haptic media. This article explores these embodied dimensions of young children’s mobile media use, drawing on research from (1) ethnographic observation of young children’s play practices in family homes, (2) analysis of videos of young children’s tactile media interaction shared on YouTube and (3) analysis of user interface (UI) and mobile app developer literature, such as the ‘Event Handling Guide for iOS’, which encodes touchscreen interaction through the design constraints and possibilities of gesture input techniques. Taking as its starting point Marcel Mauss’ famous reflection on body techniques, this article draws on past and present research on mobile technologies, tactility and everyday life, to explore what might be involved in developing a ‘cultural phenomenology’ of mobile touchscreens. This research and analysis reveals the emergence of what we term a haptic habitus or cultivation of embodied dispositions for touchscreen conduct and competence.

Early Childhood Media Exposure and Self-Regulation: Bidirectional Longitudinal Associations

ObjectiveTo investigate: 1) prospective associations between media exposure (television viewing, computers, and electronic games) at 2 years and self-regulation at 4 and 6 years, and 2) bidirectional associations between media exposure and self-regulation at 4 and 6 years. We hypothesized that media exposure and self-regulation would show a negative prospective association and subsequent bidirectional inverse associations. MethodsData from the nationally-representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children when children were aged 2 years (n = 2786) and 4/6 years (n = 3527) were used. Primary caregivers reported children's weekly electronic media exposure. A composite measure of self-regulation was computed from caregiver-, teacher-, and observer-report data. Associations were examined using linear regression and cross-lagged panel models, accounting for covariates. ResultsLower television viewing and total media exposure at 2 years were associated with higher self-regulation at 4 years (both β = −0.02; 95% confidence interval [CI], −0.03 to −0.01). Lower self-regulation at 4 years was also significantly associated with higher television viewing (β = −0.15; 95% CI, −0.21 to −0.08), electronic game use (β = −0.05; 95% CI, −0.09 to −0.01), and total media exposure (β = −0.19; 95% CI, −0.29 to −0.09) at 6 years. However, media exposure at 4 years was not associated with self-regulation at 6 years. ConclusionsAlthough media exposure duration at 2 years was associated with later self-regulation, and self-regulation at 4 years was associated with later media exposure, associations were of small magnitude. More research is needed to examine content quality, social context, and mobile media use and child self-regulation.

Essays from the inaugural Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand conference (2016)

The essays gathered in this issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema are selected from, and broadly representative of, the methods and topics brought together at the inaugural SSAAANZ conference. Collectively, the essays speak to a broad conception of screen studies and diverse critical concerns across film and television exhibition and reception, documentary film, pedagogy and screen culture. Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams’ article analyses the cultural history of Melbourne’s Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Tessa Dwyer offers a detailed examination of the acclaimed television series Top of the Lake and the role cultural specificity and the authentic voice play in the context of transnational television. Simon Sigley investigates cinematic shifts in how Western Samoa was represented in three feature-length documentary films. Produced by the National Film Unit (NFU) of New Zealand between 1947 and 1962, the films cover a period during which ‘Samoa was administered as a United Nations (UN) trust territory by the New Zealand government’. Derived from a primary survey, Toija Cinque and Jordan Vincent’s article investigates the use of smart TVs and broadband-enabled mobile media devices for the viewing of movies, television programs and documentaries among other forms of screen content, often concurrently with social media devices, to understand audience practices in an increasingly fragmented mediascape. Vejune Zemaityte, Deb Verhoeven and Bronwyn Coate draw on big data in relation to feature film screenings and box office figures to interrogate the ‘10 per cent rule’ – the often made, but untested, claim in industry discourses that the Australian market represents 10 percent of the theatrical market for Hollywood films. Focussing on both Australian and US screening data from 2013, the article compares the popularity of selected American films in both the Australian and US markets to ‘contrast the differences that emerge in terms of distribution and exhibition’. Finally, Mark Ryan examines the pedagogy of screen content in undergraduate Australian screen studies courses. Together, the essays collected here provide a sense of the vibrancy and diversity of the research from the inaugural conference of Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, and anticipate its second conference, The Uses of Cinema: Film, Television, Screen, Monash University, Melbourne, November 21–23, 2018.

Use of Social Media to Support Nursing Students’ Learning in Zambia

This study seeks to explore the use of social media to support the learning of nursing students in Zambia. Data was collected from the WhatsApp and email conversation chats involving 76 nursing students at the University of Zambia School. The content of the conversation chats was analyzed in terms of common themes, patterns and interrelationships. It was established that nursing students can take a leading role in empowering themselves by taking charge of their continued learning by using social media responsibly. Key findings that emerged from the WhatsApp and e-mail discussions are: Knowledge enhancement and sharing of best practices were significant in the WhatsApp Group, Virtual Classroom community, was significantly stronger in the WhatsApp group, WhatsApp group had a minimally more positive placement experience, other measures (social capital/knowledge application/learning dimension community) did not differ significantly. The use of social mobile media is not only limited to professional nurses but also nursing students. As the training of nurse professionals evolves in the midst of high technology use, more and more students may seek to prefer the use of social mobile media as a tool for continuous learning. In comparison to the email platform, students in the WhatsApp were able to maintain conversations up to the end of the allocated period of the study. The information gathered from this project can be useful to fostering a unified understanding of professional knowledge and a feeling of belongingness among nursing students.

University Students� Listening Behaviour of FM Radio Programmes in Nigeria: An Exploratory Approach

University Students’ Listening Behaviour of FM Radio Programmes in Nigeria: An Exploratory Approach Dr. Oghogho Uyi OSAZEE-ODIA, Dr. Lucky OJOBOR Abstract This study explores university students listening behaviour of FM radio programmes, with DELSU FM 103.7 radio station as a study location to assess the motivations for listening to FM radio programmes and gratifications being derived. A self-completion questionnaire was administered to 200 students in different faculties/department in Delta State University, using simple random sampling procedure and the students selected were regular listeners of FM radio programmes. The respondents’ data were presented in tables, pie chart, bar chart and descriptive statistic to unfold demographic profile of respondents and the listening patterns of FM radio programmes. Findings revealed that majority of students were more incline towards information derivation. The study also found information/knowledge as the most gratification to students. Further findings indicated the students’ frequency of listening to DELSU FM radio programmes was consistent or regular noting the use of mobile media as facilitative devices for students’ ability in listening to DELSU FM radio programmes. The study observes that the uses and gratifications theory of the media help underscore the students’ actions and decisions in exploring the potentialities of FM radio programmes for self-benefits or gratifications affirming as well as the uniqueness of radio as a medium of mass communication in society. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/rjmc.v5n2a3

Doing data differently? Developing personal data tactics and strategies amongst young mobile media users

Large amounts of personal data are generated through young people’s engagements with mobile media, with these data increasingly (re)used by advertisers, content developers and other third parties to profile, predict and position individuals. This has prompted growing concerns over the ability of mobile media users to develop informed stances towards how and why their data is being used, i.e. to build ‘conscious’ and/or ‘resistant’ forms of ‘data agency’. This paper explores ways of developing the critical consciousness and resistant practices of young mobile media users towards personal data. Drawing on research with 27 young people (aged 13–17 years), the paper describes efforts to make representations of third party use of personal data openly available as a basis from which to develop data-savvy tactics and strategies. The results of these interventions – while only partially successful – offer valuable insights into the technical, social and cultural issues that shape young people’s engagement with personal data. The paper concludes by considering how concerns over data agency might be better aligned with the realities of young people’s mobile media use.

Capturing mobility: The time–space diary as a method for assessing media use niches

As mobile media have grown more advanced, and mobile Internet access has increased to a near-ubiquitous state, media use is often described as occurring “anytime, anywhere.” Consequently, measuring media use and understanding competition and coexistence within such an environment is a constant challenge for researchers. To help address this issue the present study explicates a method for measuring media use and competition, the time–space diary, and reports a methodological study testing the robustness of this method across 3 diary instruments. Following a summary of concepts central to mobile media use and measurement, this study reports findings from data collected using 3 types of time–space diaries. Results indicate no significant difference between diary methods (paper and pencil, audio recorder, mobile device) on the likelihood of reported media use, and minimal differences in patterns of competitive superiority, supporting the reliability of the method. Paper-and-pencil diaries are argued to offer the greatest use flexibility relative to audio recorders and mobile devices, and received higher ease of use scores relative to mobile devices. The article concludes with a discussion of the utility of the time–space diary method for emerging mobile media research which must account for media use in novel times and places, as well as multichannel media consumption.

Correlates of mobile screen media use among children aged 0–8: a systematic review

ObjectiveThis study is a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature to identify the correlates of mobile screen media use among children aged 8 years and less.SettingHome or community-based studies were...

The role of sleep in the relation between young children's mobile media use and effortful control.

We explored the relations among young children's mobile media use, sleep, and a form of self-regulation, temperamental effortful control (EC), among a national sample of 402 mothers who completed an online survey. We found that the relation between mobile media use and EC was moderated by children's sleep time. Tablet use was negatively related to EC only among children who slept less at night (40% of our sample). However, hand-held game player use was positively related to EC among children who slept longer at night (60% of our sample). In addition, sleep quality was a mediator in the relation between evening tablet use and EC. Evening use related to later bedtimes, more bedtime resistance, and worse sleep duration, and these indicators of poor sleep quality, in turn, predicted weaker EC. Statement of contribution What is already known on this subject? Young children are spending increasing amounts of time with mobile media, such as tablets and hand-held game players. Media exposure is related to children's self-regulation. Media exposure is related to children's sleep quality. What does this study adds? Number of sleep hours moderates the relation between mobile media use and EC among young children. Tablet time is negatively related to EC among young children who get fewer sleep hours. Hand-held game playing is positively related to EC among young children who get greater sleep hours. Sleep quality mediates the relation between evening tablet time and EC among young children.

Commentary: Mobile and Interactive Media Use by Young Children: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown.

Commentary: Mobile and Interactive Media Use by Young Children: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown.

5.64 ANALYSIS OF FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE SMARTPHONE EXPOSURE AND USE FROM AGES 3 TO 5 YEARS

The aim of the present study was to examine young children’s exposure to and use of mobile media devices including smartphone and identify parental and children's factors that influence smartphone exposure among Korean children from ages 3–5.

Correlates of mobile screen media use among children aged 0-8: protocol for a systematic review.

BackgroundChildhood is a crucial period for shaping healthy behaviours; however, it currently appears to be dominated by screen time. A large proportion of young children do not adhere to the screen time recommendations, with the use of mobile screen devices becoming more common than fixed screens. Existing systematic reviews on correlates of screen time have focused largely on the traditional fixed screen devices such as television. Reviews specially focused on mobile screen media are almost non-existent. This paper describes the protocol for conducting a systematic review of papers published between 2009 and 2015 to identify the correlates of mobile screen media use among children aged 0–8 years.MethodsA systematic literature search of electronic databases will be carried out using different combinations of keywords for papers published in English between January 2009 and December 2015. Additionally, a manual search of reference lists and citations will also be conducted. Papers that have examined correlates of screen time among children aged 0–8 will be included in the review. Studies must include at least one type of mobile screen media (mobile phones, electronic tablets or handheld computers) to be eligible for inclusion. This study will identify correlates of mobile screen-viewing among children in five categories: (i) child biological and demographic correlates, (ii) behavioural correlates, (iii) family biological and demographic correlates, (iv) family structure-related correlates and (v) socio-cultural and environmental correlates. PRISMA statement will be used for ensuring transparency and scientific reporting of the results.DiscussionThis study will identify the correlates associated with increased mobile screen media use among young children through the systematic review of published peer-reviewed papers. This will contribute to addressing the knowledge gap in this area. The results will provide an evidence base to better understand correlates of mobile screen media use and potentially inform the development of recommendations to reduce screen time among those aged 0–8 years.Systematic review registrationPROSPERO CRD42015028028.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13643-016-0272-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.