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Morgan Quinn Ross

@mqrmobile.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at Oregon State. Studying mobile media + mobility + identity + disconnection and plugging prime numbers into microwaves. He/Him. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Solitude in a Social World: Context Matters

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

26.02.2026 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

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24.02.2026 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“΅πŸ“± CfP β€” Special Issue:

"Mobile Disconnection"

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

πŸ“… Abstracts due: July 31, 2026

πŸ”— Full CfP: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

24.02.2026 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

23.02.2026 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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

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journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

17.02.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
"The 388" (Social Media Platform)

"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 😌

13.02.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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)? πŸ“Š Fill this out before 17 February! ✍️

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

forms.gle/pTYBKGZRyWtz...

04.02.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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.

cts.ku.dk/projects/to-...

10.02.2026 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

10.02.2026 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

πŸŽ‰ New paper led by the indomitable Lisa Rhee! πŸ’ƒ We explore social app ecologies (especially social media + messaging) in a deep dataset (feat GPS) πŸ›°οΈ Along with @huyentkle.bsky.social @joebayer.bsky.social and more of the Project mCog squad πŸ¦₯

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

05.02.2026 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

04.02.2026 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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)? πŸ“Š Fill this out before 17 February! ✍️

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

forms.gle/pTYBKGZRyWtz...

04.02.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Senior Scholar Support attendees (Part 3)

Senior Scholar Support attendees (Part 3)

Senior Scholar Support attendees (Part 1)

Senior Scholar Support attendees (Part 1)

Senior Scholar Support attendees (Part 2)

Senior Scholar Support attendees (Part 2)

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

@rzhprfshr.bsky.social et al

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

04.02.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

04.02.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Enjoyed @merbroussard.bsky.social kicking off our Just AI series last night!

29.01.2026 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fun talk for the home crowd today! 🦫

28.01.2026 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

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

28.01.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

This...

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

23.01.2026 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

23.01.2026 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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ADJUNCT -  Feature Film - TRAILER
YouTube video by Dekanalog ADJUNCT - Feature Film - TRAILER

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYk...

16.01.2026 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Unterwegs telefonieren – Digitales Museum fΓΌr Kommunikation

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...

16.01.2026 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

15.01.2026 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

15.01.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

14.01.2026 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

13.01.2026 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An absolute CREW of awesome folks!

13.01.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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!

13.01.2026 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to this panel next week!

12.01.2026 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŒπŸ“± Global intimacies & Mobile Comm Theorizing

@luytioco.bsky.social and Jason CabaΓ±es argue for non-Western and Global South theory-building in mobile media research.

πŸ’‘ A must-read for scholars seeking inclusive, contextualized approaches to mobile communication.

πŸ”— doi.org/10.1177/2050...

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