Razieh Pourafshari
@rzhprfshr.bsky.social
PhD student in Communication. Studying tech habits and time. The Ohio State University
Iran protests latest: Tehran threatens protesters with death penalty as casualties climb
Iran protests live: Tehran threatens protesters with death penalty as casualties rise
A human rights group says at least 65 people have been killed since demonstrations began on 28 December
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🧵 1/ 🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask: 👉 Why do some papers cite others? 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
Cool to see our newest work on social media covered by @the-independent.com! www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
You may be scrolling through Instagram out of habit and not addiction
Almost half of teenagers in Britain say they feel addicted to social media
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STOKED that our paper on smartphone and spatial habits is out in Scientific Reports! 🎉 Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡 Personal thread below! rdcu.be/eQ7q0
Smartphone habits are stronger in spaces chosen out of habit
Scientific Reports - Smartphone habits are stronger in spaces chosen out of habit
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The BEST part of my summer! ☀️💙
Alicia Gilbert@aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 12mo agoMy academic summer this year: new city, new friends & colleagues, new insights 🌞📚 I visited @joebayer.bsky.social and his lab at The Ohio State University during July. Very grateful for a formative time & all the convos @rzhprfshr.bsky.social @mqrmobile.bsky.social @stephtorrespantoja.bsky.social
One of the things I keep thinking about—even two months after ICA Mobile Preconference—is our workshop on digital disconnection policies. We had to think about kids’ education, ages, and contexts—and we kept circling back to the role of "teachers" who would actually deliver those policies!
Sakshi@sakshi-bhalla.bsky.social · 12mo agoMedia literacy is often seen as a key solution to preparing people to navigate a complex media environment. But is it taught equitably? Our new article examines how an Illinois mandate requiring media literacy instruction is being implemented across schools. digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol17/i...
LOVING @mqrmobile.bsky.social and @joebayer.bsky.social 's Mobile Top Paper on theorizing affordances of connectivity! @icamobile.bsky.social
Wrapping up #ica25 with @rzhprfshr.bsky.social presenting our work with @joebayer.bsky.social reviewing the research under the broad umbrella of “social connection”. And perfect timing because the paper was published TODAY at @natrevpsychol.nature.com 🥳 rdcu.be/erayE
The four conceptualizations of social connection
Nature Reviews Psychology - The term ‘social connection’ is operationalized differently across disparate strands of research. In this Review, Baek et al. highlight four distinct uses of...
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Excited to share my latest on solitude in @plosone.bsky.social! With Scott Campbell, I leveraged communicate bond belong theory to investigate how different shades of solitude 🚣 balance energy restoration 🔋 and relatedness with others 🫂 for well-being 🙂: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
The tradeoff of solitude? Restoration and relatedness across shades of solitude
Social interaction and solitude entail tradeoffs. Communicate Bond Belong (CBB) theory holds that social interaction can foster relatedness with others at the cost of social energy, whereas solitude c...
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