Educators as agents of breadth-biased learning: using social reconstructionism as rationale for embracing media multitasking and enhancing teaching practices in higher education [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis perspective article contends that media multitasking has significant implications on cognitive control processes, particularly in how information is processed and utilized.
Seada A. Kassie
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Media Multitasking Scale: Validation Study with Portuguese Adolescents
Social SciencesThe increasing presence of digital media has amplified the need to study media multitasking (both multiple media activities simultaneously and using media while doing non-media activities).
Luísa Campos +5 more
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Fear of Missing out and Online Social Anxiety in University Students: Mediation by Irrational Procrastination and Media Multitasking [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesWith the rapid growth of internet mobile technology, recent research has increasingly focused on the mental health challenges faced by young people, particularly in relation to social media use.
Weimiao Wu, Jie Zhang, Namjeong Jo
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Media multitasking, impulsivity and dual task ability [PDF]
Computers in Human Behavior, 2019 Abstract With recent developments in technology, media multitasking is an ever-increasing phenomenon. Although most studies associate media multitasking with high impulsivity and poorer cognitive performance, findings in the literature have been mixed, with some studies suggesting the opposite.
Eva Kemps, Myoungju Shin
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Features of Media Multitasking in School-Age Children. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel), 2019 The paper addresses the phenomenon of media multitasking that is being widely spread among children and adolescents in the context of digital socialization. The previous research has revealed its strong connection with cognitive control, executive functions, and academic performance, yet the specificity and efficacy of media multitasking performance ...
Soldatova G, Chigarkova S, Dreneva A.
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Negativity Bias in Media Multitasking: The Effects of Negative Social Media Messages on Attention to Television News Broadcasts. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Television viewers' attention is increasingly more often divided between television and "second screens", for example when viewing television broadcasts and following their related social media discussion on a tablet computer.
Jari Kätsyri +4 more
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Does Media Multitasking Always Hurt?
i-Perception, 2011 Chronic heavy media multitaskers have been found impaired cognitive performance on certain cognitive tasks (Ophir, Nass & Wagner, 2009). However, the poor performance may be caused by their breadth-biased style of cognitive control rather than a deficit ...
Lui Fai Hong, Alan C.-N. Wong
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Exploitation–Exploration Model of Media Multitasking
Journal of Media Psychology, 2021 Abstract. Media multitasking has been long considered as a distraction, as something that is inherently negative or irrational. Yet, casual observations and study findings indicate that in the current permanently online, permanently connected society, people still media multitask frequently, sometimes in spite of their knowledge of the costs.
Wisnu Wiradhany +2 more
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Individual differences in media multitasking ability: The importance of cognitive flexibility
Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2021 Previous research on media multitasking has often focussed on the frequency with which people perform this type of behaviour. Heavy media multitaskers have been found to differ from light media multitaskers in their performance of tasks involving ...
Alexandra L. Seddon +3 more
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Cognitive control in media multitaskers [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009 Chronic media multitasking is quickly becoming ubiquitous, although processing multiple incoming streams of information is considered a challenge for human cognition. A series of experiments addressed whether there are systematic differences in information processing styles between chronically heavy and light media multitaskers.
Eyal, Ophir +2 more
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