#ICA2026 was truly a blast in the beautiful city of Cape Town!! What better way to end the conference by announcing our June Scholar-in-the-Spotlight: @lisemarienassen.bsky.social! She is a postdoc at the University of Amsterdam. Read our interview with her here: www.icamobile.org/scholar-in-t...

Time flies when you're having fun... and #ICA2026 has been a blast! 🎉 Two last sessions tomorrow: 📱 "Platforms, Mobile Infrastructure & Precarious Empowerment in the Global South" → 12pm, Room 1.64, CTICC1 L1 ❤️ "Mobile Communication in Personal Relationships" → 1.30pm, Rooms 2.41–2.43, CTICC1 L2

In the afternoon, we have a session on "Mobile Disconnection Practices" (12pm) in 1.64 at CTICC1, Level 1, followed by "Mobile Inequalities Among Marginalized Communities" at 3pm in 1.62 (CTICC1, Lev 1). #ICA2026

We have three exciting sessions tomorrow at #ICA2026! We start tomorrow with a super interesting session on "Mobile Media and Well-Being" (9am) in 1.64 at CTICC1, Level 1!

🦆 Great conversation and wildlife for the @icamobile.bsky.social Student and Early Career Lunch at a scenic nearby WWII Memorial!

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If you are an early career scholar at #ICA2026, do also consider joining the Student and Early Career Lunch at 12pm. We will meet around the Bartolomeu Dias Statue before heading out to a Woolworth's close by! Drop our SECR @mqrmobile.bsky.social a note if you have difficulties finding the location!

A very special day for the community at #ICA2026 as our chair, @asouzaesilva.bsky.social, was inducted as an International Communication Association Fellow today! Congrats Adriana!

If you are an early career scholar at #ICA2026, do also consider joining the Student and Early Career Lunch at 12pm. We will meet around the Bartolomeu Dias Statue before heading out to a Woolworth's close by! Drop our SECR @mqrmobile.bsky.social a note if you have difficulties finding the location!

After the morning sessions, we will have another set of wonderful presentations lined up on the topic of "Mobile Inequalities Among Marginalized Communities" at 3pm (CTICC1, Lev 1).

It was a wonderful first day of #ICA2026 for the division. Tomorrow, we will have a high-density session on "Topics in Mobile Communication" (9am), followed by a session on "Mobile Media in Everyday Contexts" (10.30am) at Westin, Old Harbour Level.

And we couldn't let the meeting end without celebrating a very special birthday. Happy birthday to our Division Chair, @asouzaesilva.bsky.social! 🎂🎉 What a day to remember! #ICA2026

And the celebrations keep coming! 🎊 🌱 Emerging Scholar → Debjani Chakraborty 🎓 Top Dissertation (x2!) → @lisemarienassen.bsky.social & Mora Matassi

The best division at #ICA2026 also has the best papers! 📄 Congrats to our winners: 🏅 Top Student Paper → Yixuan Liu & Xianglong Wen 🏅 Top Faculty Paper → @tothrol.bsky.social, @dougaparry.bsky.social & @klingelhoefer.bsky.social

We just wrapped our #ICA2026 business meeting! 🎉 Big news: three new named awards honoring legends of the field: 🏆 The James E. Katz Award for Outstanding Empirical Research 📚 The Rich Ling Mobile Communication Book Award 🌱 The Leopoldina Fortunati Emerging Scholar Award

After the top paper session, we will hold our business meeting at 4.30pm in the same room (Bluebell, CTICC2, Level 3) followed by our reception at 6pm immediately after! Come hang out with the coolest division at #ICA2026!

What a lively way to start #ICA2026 tonight at the reception! Tomorrow, we will start with two top paper sessions in Bluebell at CTICC2, Level 3 (12pm, then at 3pm). We also have a poster session at the ground level of CTICC1 from 1.30pm to 2.45pm!

Midway through the preconference after 4 wonderful sessions. Weather is perfect, everyone is fed, and we are starting the second half of the day with a Mobile Methods Workshop #ICA2026

#ICA2026 is officially off for the Mobile Communication Division at our annual preconference at the University of Cape Town! Kicking things off is Vice-Chair Scott Campbell and keynote speaker, Tanja Bosch, on "Mobile Communication in an AI Age".

The ICA Mobile Preconference is days away! Wed June 3 at U of Cape Town with keynotes by Tanja Bosch & @dougaparry.bsky.social, workshops, panels & dinner reception! Full program can be found here: icamobile.org/mobilepreconferences/2026preconfprogram See you there! #ICA2026 #MobileCommunication

@gvanhoffelen.bsky.social is our May scholar in the spotlight! Gaëlle is a PhD student at the Media Psychology Lab (KU Leuven). She studies the various dimensions of self-presentations on social media and their effects on well-being. View our interview with her here: www.icamobile.org/scholar-gaelle

The ICA Mobile Communication Division is accepting nominations & self-nominations for Vice-Chair! Lead the future of the division and shape the pre-conferences in Bangkok & Chicago and eventually step into the Chair role. Learn more: www.icamobile.org/vice-chair26 #ICA2026

Call for Governance Positions | ICA Mobile

Current calls for governance positions at the ICA Mobile Communication Division

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Reminder that there will be some upcoming pre-ICA hangouts and activities this coming week! If you are new (or a seasoned ICA conference attendee), please join us to talk and learn more about the divison and the conference in general! #ICA26 #MobileComm

Morgan Quinn Ross@mqrmobile.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pregame #ica26 with these @icamobile.bsky.social sponsored events! On 5 + 6 May, we'll chat about ICA et al ☕ Here's the link: tinyurl.com/icamobileevent (pw: ICAMOBILE) On 8 May, there's an event to help students + early-career scholars prepare for ICA. Register here: forms.gle/AryewUXumCsC...

Our April 2026 scholar in the spotlight is Yifei Lu, a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania, interested in (mobile) social interactions and social cognition. See our full interview with Yifei here: www.icamobile.org/scholar-yifei

👇 Cool opportunity for mobile data from @jsradford.bsky.social and Northeastern's National Internet Observatory nationalinternetobservatory.org/researchers.... Of interest to @icamobile.bsky.social 📱 Thanks to @qinli0.bsky.social for sharing! ❤️

In Episode 5 of the Oral Histories of Mobile Communication, we hear from @jasonfarman.bsky.social, Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, whose work has been foundational to the study of embodiment, space, and mobile media. Watch the episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ahi...

Episode 5: Jason Farman – Embodied Space, Delay, and Mobile Storytelling

YouTube video by Center for Transformative Media

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Our ECR @mqrmobile.bsky.social has planned another two information sessions on 7th and 8th April! Do join if you are interested to learn more about the division, meet likeminded individuals, and some new friends in preparation for #ICA26 in Cape Town!

Morgan Quinn Ross@mqrmobile.bsky.social · 5mo ago

➡️ Next up: the #ICA_Mobile Information Sessions! A great chance to learn 📖 and ask questions 🙋 about our division. Join us on 7 + 8 April! Here's the link: tinyurl.com/icamobileevent (password: ICAMOBILE)

Two exciting opportunities are closing soon! Nominations for the Top Dissertation Award are due March 31, and the Emerging Scholar Research Grant deadline is May 4. Know someone deserving? Nominate them! Details: www.icamobile.org/topdissertat... www.icamobile.org/emergingscho...

Top Dissertation Award 2026 | ICA Mobile

Call for Nominations for the the Top Dissertation Award

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@rzhprfshr.bsky.social is our March 2026 scholar in the spotlight! She is a PhD student working closely with @joebayer.bsky.social and Dr Mimi Brinberg in understanding how everyday mobile media use affects relationships. See our full interview with Razieh here! www.icamobile.org/scholar-razieh

Working with digital & comp tools? MMR is dedicated to short pieces introducing research tools for #mobilecomm research. 🛠️📱 🎯Goal: Transparency, reuse & recognition for the tools we build and use. Editor: dscheykopp.bsky.social 👉https://journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mobile_research_resources

February 2026's scholar in the spotlight is @aliciagilbert.bsky.social! Alicia is a PhD candidate and research associate at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany. You can read our interview with Alicia here: www.icamobile.org/scholar-alic...

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