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Returning to and continuing the traditional Chinese family system via WeChat: Digitally mediated families in liquid China 通过微信回归并延续中国传统家庭体系：流动中国的数字中介家庭

Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1177/20501579241246722

Yutian Xiong

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Escaping the rough life of the street: Roofless people and mobile social media 逃离粗暴的街头生活：没有屋顶的人和移动社交媒体

Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-11 DOI: 10.1177/20501579241232035

Vojtěch Dvořák

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Escaping the rough life of the street: Roofless people and mobile social media 逃离粗暴的街头生活：没有屋顶的人和移动社交媒体

Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-11 DOI: 10.1177/20501579241232035

Vojtěch Dvořák

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The effect of “Housing First” on mobile and digital media usage by people experiencing homelessness: A program evaluation based on a randomized controlled trial in Spain 住房优先 "对无家可归者使用手机和数字媒体的影响：基于西班牙随机对照试验的项目评估

Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI: 10.1177/20501579231216670

José-Luis Martínez-Cantos, Juan‐Ángel Martín‐Fernández, Sonia Panadero

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The association between mobile dating app use and relationship status satisfaction: A survey study 移动约会应用程序的使用与关系状态满意度之间的关联：一项调查研究

Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1177/20501579231221069

Daniëlle N. M. Bleize, Aart van Stekelenburg, S. Tamboer

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The rise of chronic reachability and the accelerated, flexible society: The social construction of the pager, 1987–1999 长期可及性的兴起与加速灵活的社会：寻呼机的社会建构，1987-1999 年

Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-18 DOI: 10.1177/20501579231219353

J. Verhoef

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The origins of mobile communication research 移动通信研究的起源

Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-18 DOI: 10.1177/20501579231220847

Rich Ling, L. Fortunati

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Nationwide research on the uses and motivations of dating apps by young adults in the cultural environment of Turkey 关于土耳其文化环境中年轻人使用约会应用程序及其动机的全国性研究

Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-03 DOI: 10.1177/20501579231215709

Aylin Sunam Audry, Ozen Bas, İrem İnceoğlu, Yiğit Bahadır Kaya, Gözde Cöbek, Saygın Vedat Alkurt

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Who “phubs”? A systematic meta-analytic review of phubbing predictors 谁会 "幽会"？对phubbing预测因素的系统荟萃分析回顾

Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI: 10.1177/20501579231215678

Anisha Arenz, Anna Schnauber-Stockmann

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(In)Visibility and the smartphone: Experiencing homelessness as dictated by urban figurations of social control (不)可见性与智能手机：体验由城市社会控制形象所决定的无家可归现象

Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-21 DOI: 10.1177/20501579231214898

Anna Xymena Tissot, Frank Sowa

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