Motivations for using the mobile phone for mass communications and entertainment

By Ran Wei. Telematics and informatics, 2008

312 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f851ac2d41e0632c1e150e52fac4ca82ebc4354c

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In Communication

1. Lisa G. Perks
2. Jacob S. Turner
3. James Eric Gaskin
4. Jin-Liang Wang

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Lisa G. Perks
2. Jacob S. Turner
3. Li-Hui Wang
4. Hai-Zhen Wang
5. James Eric Gaskin
6. Jin-Liang Wang
7. Jon D. Elhai
8. Jason C. Levine

Citations in the corpus

• Podcasts and Productivity: A Qualitative Uses and Gratifications Study (2018, background): “time shifting (McClung & Johnson, 2010; Wade & Patterson, 2015), place shifting (Wade & Patterson, 2015; Wei, 2008), parasocial relationships with podcast hosts and characters (Hartmann, 2008), listener control and choice (which overlap with time and place shifting; Albarran et al.”
• The role of stress and motivation in problematic smartphone use among college students (2015, background): “In other studies, it has been revealed that relaxing, relieving stress (Ho & Syu, 2010), strengthening users’ family bonds, expanding their psychological neighborhoods, facilitating symbolic proximity to the people they call (Wei & Lo, 2006), as well as pass time (Wei, 2008), are motives for using m”