Alicia Gilbert
PhD candidate communication science @ifpmainz.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social
digital disconnection | social media | self-regulation | well-being
- Digital media breaks can improve well-being: New study finds short-term mood benefits from intentional digital disconnection – while showing that external pressure to unplug can backfire 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/digital-media… #DigitalDisconnection #DigitalDetox #SocialMedia #offline
- Reposted by Alicia Gilbert☎️ Calling all early career scholars! Want to talk casually with an @icamobile.bsky.social senior scholar about a mobile comm project you're working on? Fill out this form by 19 January + we'll match you with a senior scholar to provide feedback: forms.gle/hdhayc34dXEb...
- Reposted by Alicia GilbertMora Matassi is January's scholar in the spotlight! She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Argentina. You can view the full interview with Mora through this link: www.icamobile.org/scholar-mora
- hey #mobilecomm community @icamobile.bsky.social For a new exhibition on 100 yrs of mobile telephony, the Communication Museum in Frankfurt am Main prepared a website w many cool historic photos. 🤳 They also discuss a phoneless future 🤫 www.digitales-museum-fuer-kommunikation.de/expotizer-un...
- the live exhibition is available until May 31st. Who joins me for a field trip? 🤓
- for example, mobile telephony in trains in 1926 and car phones in 1955
- Reposted by Alicia GilbertExciting times ahead! In June, our newly elected officers @lisemarienassen.bsky.social, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social, and @deeptiapte.bsky.social will officially step into their roles to take #ICAMobile forward. We look forward to introducing them at the #ICA26 Business Meeting. Stay tuned!
- Reposted by Alicia GilbertThe "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.
- New preprint from our digital disconnection project with @klingelhoefer.bsky.social and @adrianmeier.bsky.social We find that #disconnection can help to reduce #procrastination.
- Reposted by Alicia GilbertExcited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨 S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria. S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse. Thread below... 🧵
- Reposted by Alicia Gilbert5️⃣/🔟 In Scientific Reports, 5 of the top 10 most cited articles have an article number of 1. 5️⃣/🔟 In Nature Communications the same: 5 of the top 10 are article 1s. Coincidence? 👇 scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0... I think not.
- Abstract mal anders: In einem neuen Video der @unimainz.bsky.social gebe ich einen Einblick in unsere neue Studie zu #Disconnection und #Wohlbefinden #sciencecomm #wisskomm #digitalwellbeing #tiktok www.tiktok.com/@unimainz/vi...
- 📬 Pub alert Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*? Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋 @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social Out now in Communication Research doi.org/10.1177/0093...
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- 📬 Pub alert Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*? Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋 @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social Out now in Communication Research doi.org/10.1177/0093...
- Reposted by Alicia GilbertNEW PREPRINT 💡 Together with @dougaparry.bsky.social, I just published a new preprint experimentally examining how specific normative cues on social media shape self-disclosure using an innovative simulation approach. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... Read on for more information (1/9) 👇
- and here we are in 2025, when @economist.com publishes nonsense on AI facereading for evaluating people's hirability -- the lack of historic awareness is staggering
- the article in question, starting with: "Imagine appearing for a job interview and, without saying a single word, being told that you are not getting the role because your face didn’t fit. You would assume discrimination..." YEAH WELL
- Reposted by Alicia Gilbert🎉 The PolComm Database Dashboard is live! The database content is now available in an interactive dashboard: a milestone since launching submissions at #ICA25 in Denver. Explore this resource here 👉 politicalcommunication.org/resources/
- Reposted by Alicia GilbertHad fun presenting on my forthcoming work about social media habits and addiction at the USC Neely Center and Addiction Sciences Institute the other week...A recording is now available on YouTube! Link below goes to my intro and ~15min talk; Q&A is at the end! youtu.be/QT6G0PpvQhg?...
- Reposted by Alicia Gilbert🎉 📣 Out now in Communication Research! 📣 🎉 What makes us stop using #media in a specific situation? A new study by my great co-author @annastockmann.bsky.social and me examines situational #disengagement from #TikTok and #Instagram. 📱 🔚 Find the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
- Reposted by Alicia GilbertEver found yourself scrolling on your phone in the middle of a conversation?📱👥Curious about why this happens, @annastockmann.bsky.social and I explored the situational drivers of co-present phone use in our new🔓#OpenAccess paper, just published in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social🎉 (1/6)
- Reposted by Alicia Gilbert✨ Scholar in the Spotlight is here! Meet Rich Ling - our very first featured scholar! Discover his insights and what makes his tick! Here's the fun part: each scholar picks the next one to spotlight. Who will Rich choose? 👀 Read the full interview 👉 www.icamobile.org/spotlight-ri... #ICAMobile
- Reposted by Alicia GilbertWe built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by Alicia GilbertThank you @overbye.bsky.social — going to Greece to present the paper wasn’t so bad either 👀 Also thanks to my wonderful co-authors @aliciaernst.bsky.social, @rkreling.bsky.social, @aliciagilbert.bsky.social, @mscharkow.bsky.social, @leonardreinecke.bsky.social and Benedikt! More to come soon!
- Fabulous study by @felix-dietrich.de @aliciaernst.bsky.social @rkreling.bsky.social et al., examining how algorithmic curation affects music streaming UX. Key finding: More algorithmic recommendations = less enjoyment, BUT listening sessions w/algorithmic curation were perceived as more novel 🧪
- 5 years of the digitox seminar series 🥳 It's now practically an institution for those interested in digital disconnection research A must attend in Jan 👇
- Looking forward to being on this STACKED panel celebrating five years of the Digitox seminar series on digital disconnection 🎉 We'll be taking stock of the past, present, and future of disconnection 📵 www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/...
- massive thanks @vic-kra.bsky.social and team for organizing these gems
- Reposted by Alicia GilbertReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions! Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.
- New work from our lab 💕 Finally a paper with all my lab besties
- Interested in… a) taking theories out of the lab (and try to specify them to work irl) b) computational methods (data donations, LLM content analysis) c) media coping d) all of the above? Then our new HCR-paper is *just* for you! doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...
- Reposted by Alicia GilbertAnother year, another full slate of @icamobile.bsky.social student and early career scholar events! Here are the details:
- 💡Pub alert 💡 Why do users stop a media activity? Today I presented "101 reasons to stop: A systematic review of media cues for disengagement" at #CHIGreece2025 🏖️ The full paper - the 3rd of my PhD thesis - is now available #openaccess at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Summary below ⬇️
- Disengagement = users stop a media use activity in a given situation. Whereas internal (psycho-physiological) & external context cues (e.g., temporal, spatial) have been theoretically organized, #media cues remain to be systematized. ➡️ We conducted a systematic review of 27 studies & 90 media cues.
- (1) Structure of the field: 📍Research centered in the US & Germany 📍Computer science most prominent so far, followed by information science & communication science 📍19% of studies with an industry partner 📍Mostly exploratory methods 📍Focus on information search & gaming media
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View full threadNow off to Ermoupoli beach to celebrate this 3rd publication of my PhD thesis (1 left to go! 😇) and my amazing co-authors @schoenefrauke.bsky.social @rkreling.bsky.social @felix-dietrich.de @leonardreinecke.bsky.social
- Returned from this year's #MediaPsych25 conference in Duisburg with lots of inspiration, food for thought, & new ideas (note to self: no, you cannot start 2 more projects). Got valuable feedback on my theoretical work on #disengagement - why & how do users stop exposure? @mepsy.bsky.social (1/3)
- #MediaPsych25 was also an excellent opportunity to get feedback on our current project on #disconnection from #messaging. It seems that situational #norm salience is the main predictor of (dis)connection - stay tuned! @mqrmobile.bsky.social @joebayer.bsky.social @leonardreinecke.bsky.social (2/3)
- Finally, after the conference is before the conference. 🤠 Next week, our team will head to #CHIGreece2025 on beautiful Syros. 🏖️ We'll present recent work on media cues for #disengagement & on #algorithmic recommendations in music streaming - watch this space! chigreece.gr/2025/program... (3/3)
