This review delineates core components of the social media ecosystem, specifying how
online platforms complicate established social psychological effects. We assess four pairs of …

Social media habits represent one of the most common–and controversial–forms of habitual
behavior in contemporary society. In this brief article, we summarize the state of research on …

Background and objectives Heavy parent digital technology use has been associated with
suboptimal parent–child interactions and internalizing/externalizing child behavior, but …

Digital media availability has surged over the past decade. Because of a lack of
comprehensive measurement tools, this rapid growth in access to digital media is …

Procrastinating with popular online media such as Facebook has been suggested to impair
users' well-being, particularly among students. Building on recent procrastination, self …

In recent years a public debate has been growing around mobile media and young people,
as research has found adverse relationships between the intensive use of smartphones and …

Social media have caused information overload for users who normally have limited
information processing capability, thus making the issue of task-information fit become …

Staying “connected” has become a societal norm and a personal habit. The goal of this
article is to explain how individuals internalize—and activate—social connectedness during …

Smartphones and other mobile devices have fundamentally changed patterns of Internet
use in everyday life by making online access constantly available. The present paper offers …

Today's constant availability of media content provides users with various recreational
resources. It may also challenge self-control, however, once media exposure conflicts with …