Morgan Quinn Ross

Just AI conversation cards, one signed by Karen Hao

Part 2 of the Just AI series: thanks to fellow #AIvegan @karenhao.bsky.social for her insight, including her answer to the signed question card below!

Solitude in a Social World: Context Matters

#spsp2026 FoMO! Bummed to miss this stacked panel, not to mention the wings at the @chicagodiner.bsky.social

#FirstMonday to stop new issu3s after it's May 2026.

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📵📱 CfP — Special Issue:

"Mobile Disconnection"

Editors: @mqrmobile.bsky.social, Mora Matassi & @trinesy.bsky.social

📅 Abstracts due: July 31, 2026

🔗 Full CfP: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

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Please consider submitting to our special issue on mobile disconnection in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social! Check out the call for papers below, with extended abstracts due on 31 July 2026. With Mora Matassi and @trinesy.bsky.social

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"The 388" (Social Media Platform)

🍎 On Tuesday my students configured a Canvas discussion board based on @mcewan.bsky.social's principles and characteristics of online communities, and on Thursday they enacted it successfully! Only one thread dedicated to complaining about the midterm 😌

Early Career Colloquium: Interest Form Calling all early career scholars! Want to briefly and casually present to fellow early career scholars about a mobile communication project you're working on (at any stage)? Fill out this form and yo...

🚨 It's time again for @icamobile.bsky.social's Early Career Colloquium! 🎤 Want to briefly + casually present to early career scholars about a mobile comm project you're working on (any stage)? 📊 Fill this out before 17 February! ✍️

@icasecac.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social

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Hey #commsky, we’re hosting a workshop soon for early career and student researchers: 25 February 2026 | 10:00–11:30 CET | Zoom

Register now to join the discussion.

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Exciting news for Mobile Communication Division members attending the @icahdq.bsky.social Annual Conference in Cape Town in June! We are offering division swag.

More reasons to come join us later this year at the #ICAMobile reception!

#ICA2026

Social media vs. messaging: using GPS data to explore social app ecologies in context Drawing on a large-scale mobile trace dataset from the United States (N = 463 participants; N = 19,867,944 app logs), we examined variability in social app ecologies while directly contrasting soci...

🎉 New paper led by the indomitable Lisa Rhee! 💃 We explore social app ecologies (especially social media + messaging) in a deep dataset (feat GPS) 🛰️ Along with @huyentkle.bsky.social @joebayer.bsky.social and more of the Project mCog squad 🦥

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Debjani (@desiphdstory.bsky.social) Doctoral Research Scholar. India. Mobile Communication. Privacy. Ethnographer. Rural India. Former Print Journalist. Coffee runs in my veins.

Et al including @desiphdstory.bsky.social!

Early Career Colloquium: Interest Form Calling all early career scholars! Want to briefly and casually present to fellow early career scholars about a mobile communication project you're working on (at any stage)? Fill out this form and yo...

🚨 It's time again for @icamobile.bsky.social's Early Career Colloquium! 🎤 Want to briefly + casually present to early career scholars about a mobile comm project you're working on (any stage)? 📊 Fill this out before 17 February! ✍️

@icasecac.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social

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Senior Scholar Support attendees (Part 3)

Senior Scholar Support attendees (Part 1)

Senior Scholar Support attendees (Part 2)

@icamobile.bsky.social's Senior Scholar Support is a wrap! 🍎 Great conversations between early and late career folks 🎉

@rzhprfshr.bsky.social et al

@icasecac.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social

I appreciate that the First Author's initials are F. A.

Enjoyed @merbroussard.bsky.social kicking off our Just AI series last night!

Fun talk for the home crowd today! 🦫

How a wearable caused an Australian Open debate over tennis players’ data Bands designed to track players' health and performance data on-court are permitted by tennis governing bodies but banned at Grand Slams.

Big Aussie Open for comm tech folks!

www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...

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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

This...

www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

This is a reminder that the #ICA2026 Mobile Preconference submission deadline is coming up next week! Do consider sending in your workshop proposals and extended abstracts before the deadline! The full call can be found here: www.icamobile.org/calls

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ADJUNCT - Feature Film - TRAILER YouTube video by Dekanalog

Our union hosted a showing of this movie at the local indie. I was teaching, but "enjoyed" the trailer!

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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...

Assuming the CAPS outweighs the Caps, you probably want to up the Meaningfulness (but at least it's GOOD)!

I'm enjoying a review that was organized into Strengths, Weaknesses, Revision Suggestions (for various Problems), and Minor Issues 🙃

Yay Mora! And a deserved shout-out of one of @rachelplotnick.bsky.social's excellent books!

Travel time use in the information age This paper, focused primarily on UK data and debates, considers the potential significance of travel time use within past, present and future patterns…

There's a really rich thread of transportation / mobilities work to this end, somewhat cited in this paper. Love me some Lyons & Urry (2005): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An absolute CREW of awesome folks!

For all early career scholars: Our ECR @mqrmobile.bsky.social is running a senior scholar support program. If you are interested in getting a senior scholar to provide feedback, please sign up through the interest form by 19 January!

Looking forward to this panel next week!