Permanently online, permanently connected : living and communicating in a POPC world Permanently online, permanently connected : living and communicating in a POPC world

Permanently Online, Permanently Connected Establishes The Conceptual Grounds Needed For A Solid Understanding Of The Permanently Online/permanently Connected Phenomenon, Its Causes And Consequences, And Its Applied Implications. Due To The Diffusion Of Mobile Devices, The Ways People Communicate And Interact With Each Other And Use Electronic Media Have Changed Substantially Within A Short Period Of Time. This Megatrend Comes With Fundamental Challenges To Communication, Both Theoretical And Empirical. The Book Offers A Compendium Of Perspectives And Theoretical Approaches From Leading Thinkers In The Field To Empower Communication Scholars To Develop This Research Systematically, Exhaustively, And Quickly. It Is Essential Reading For Media And Communication Scholars And Students Studying New Media, Media Effects, And Communication Theory. -- Provided By Publisher. A Brief History Of Individual Addressability: The Role Of Mobile Communication In Being Permanently Connected -- The Permanently Online And Permanently Connected Mind: Mapping The Cognitive Structures Behind Mobile Internet Use -- Methodological Challenges Of Popc For Communication Research -- Reconceptualizing Uses And Gratifications Vis-à-vis Smartphone Applications: The Case Of Whatsapp -- Always On? Explicating Impulsive Influences On Media Use -- Permanence Of Online Access And Internet Addiction -- Multitasking: Does It Actually Exist? -- Threaded Cognition Approach To Multitasking And Activity Switching In A Permanently Online And Permanently Connected Ecosystem -- Living In The Moment: Self-narratives Of Permanently Connected Media Users -- Getting The Best Out Of Popc While Keeping The Risks In Mind: The Calculus Of Meaningfulness And Privacy -- The Experience Of Narrative In The Permanently Online, Permanently Connected Environment: Multitasking, Self-expansion, And Entertainment Effects -- Being Popc Together: Permanent Connectedness And Group Dynamics -- Popc And Social Relationships -- Between Surveillance And Sexting: Permanent Connectedness And Intimate Relationships -- Growing Up Online: Media Use And Development In Early Adolescence -- Being Mindfully Connected -- Responding To The Challenges Of Adolescents Living In A Popc World -- Permanent Connections Around The Globe -- The Popc Citizen: Political Information In The Fourth Age Of Political Communication -- The Networked Young Citizen As Popc (permanently Online, Permanently Connected) Citizen -- Permanent Entertainment And Political Behavior -- Popc And Well-being: A Risk-benefit Analysis -- Being Permanently Online And Being Permanently Connected At Work: A Demands-resources Perspective -- The Dose Makes The Poison: Theoretical Considerations And Challenges Of Health-related Pop. Edited By Peter Vorderer, Dorothée Hefner, Leonard Reinecke, And Christoph Klimmt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Title Copyright Contents Contributors Acknowledgements Part I Introduction 1 Permanently Online and Permanently Connected: A New Paradigm in Communication Research? 2 A Brief History of Individual Addressability: The Role of Mobile Communication in Being Permanently Connected 3 The Permanently Online and Permanently Connected Mind: Mapping the Cognitive Structures Behind Mobile Internet Use 4 Methodological Challenges of POPC for Communication Research Part II POPC and Decision-Making: Selecting, Processing, and Multitasking 5 Reconceptualizing Uses and Gratifications vis-à-vis Smartphone Applications: The Case of WhatsApp 6 Always On? Explicating Impulsive Influences on Media Use 7 Permanence of Online Access and Internet Addiction 8 Multitasking: Does It Actually Exist? 9 Threaded Cognition Approach to Multitasking and Activity Switching in a Permanently Online and Permanently Connected Ecosystem Part III Social Dynamics of POPC: Self, Groups, and Relationships 10 Living in the Moment: Self-Narratives of Permanently Connected Media Users 11 Getting the Best Out of POPC While Keeping the Risks in Mind: The Calculus of Meaningfulness and Privacy 12 The Experience of Narrative in the Permanently Online, Permanently Connected Environment: Multitasking, Self-Expansion, and Entertainment Effects 13 Being POPC Together: Permanent Connectedness and Group Dynamics 14 POPC and Social Relationships 15 Between Surveillance and Sexting: Permanent Connectedness and Intimate Relationships Part IV Socialization in a POPC Environment: Development, Skill Acquisition, and Cultural Influences 16 Growing Up Online: Media Use and Development in Early Adolescence 17 Being Mindfully Connected: Responding to the Challenges of Adolescents Living in a POPC World 18 Permanent Connections Around the Globe: Cross-Cultural Differences and Intercultural Linkages in POPC Part V The POPC Citizen: Politics and Participation 19 The POPC Citizen: Political Information in the Fourth Age of Political Communication 20 The Networked Young Citizen as POPC Citizen 21 Permanent Entertainment and Political Behavior Part VI Brave New World: Networked Life and Well-Being 22 POPC and Well-Being: A Risk-Benefit Analysis 23 Being Permanently Online and Being Permanently Connected at Work: A Demands–Resources Perspective 24 The Dose Makes the Poison: Theoretical Considerations and Challenges of Health-Related POPC Index