Observations on mobile communication and well-being research

IF 3.1 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Michael Chan
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The year 2013 marked not only the inaugural issue of Mobile Media & Communication, but also the start of my academic career and the development of my first mobile phone and well-being study (Chan, 2015). Whether it is conceived as “mental health,” “subjective well-being,” “flourishing,” “positive thinking,” “life satisfaction,” or another term, well-being has been the subject of scientific research for more than a century (Rodman & Fry, 2009). The longevity of the literature is understandable because of the accumulative evidence across the decades that high citizen well-being produces a variety of normatively desirable individual and societal benefits. These include increased mortality, health, academic achievement, workforce productivity, and prosocial behaviors (Maccagnan et al., 2018). During my graduate studies, I was especially fascinated by the ongoing academic and societal discourses on the beneficial and deleterious consequences of mobile phones (i.e., Rainie & Wellman, 2012; Turkle, 2011) as well as my own gradual realization that the mobile phone has become so integral to my everyday life. The successive emergence of new communication technologies since the 1990s such as the Internet and social media have stimulated a vast literature on whether they engender or diminish psychological well-being. Research on mobile phones is no exception given that it is one of the fastest-diffusing technologies in the world (Wei, 2013). Indeed, a cursory search of mobile phone and well-being related keywords in Google Scholar exemplifies the growth, which shows few signs of abating (Figure 1). As an author, reviewer, thesis supervisor, and associate editor of two journals, I have also
移动通信与幸福感研究观察
2013年不仅是《移动媒体与传播》的创刊号,也是我学术生涯的开始,也是我第一次手机与幸福研究的发展(Chan,2015)。无论是被认为是“心理健康”、“主观幸福感”、“蓬勃发展”、“积极思考”、“生活满意度”还是另一个术语,幸福感都是一个多世纪以来科学研究的主题(Rodman&Fry,2009)。文献的寿命是可以理解的,因为几十年来积累的证据表明,公民的高幸福感产生了各种规范上理想的个人和社会利益。其中包括死亡率、健康、学业成绩、劳动生产率和亲社会行为的增加(Maccagnan等人,2018)。在我的研究生学习期间,我特别着迷于学术和社会上关于手机有益和有害后果的持续讨论(即,Rainie&Wellman,2012;Turkle,2011),以及我自己逐渐意识到手机已经成为我日常生活中不可或缺的一部分。自20世纪90年代以来,互联网和社交媒体等新的通信技术的不断出现,激发了大量关于它们是否会产生或减少心理健康的文献。手机研究也不例外,因为它是世界上传播最快的技术之一(Wei,2013)。事实上,在谷歌学者(Google Scholar)中粗略搜索手机和与幸福感相关的关键词就可以证明这一增长,但几乎没有减弱的迹象(图1)。作为两份期刊的作者、审稿人、论文导师和副主编,我还
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期刊介绍: Mobile Media & Communication is a peer-reviewed forum for international, interdisciplinary academic research on the dynamic field of mobile media and communication. Mobile Media & Communication draws on a wide and continually renewed range of disciplines, engaging broadly in the concept of mobility itself.
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