Permanently online, permanently connected / edited by Peter Vorderer, Dorothée Hefner, Leonard Reinecke, and Christoph Klimmt.

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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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Contributors (p. viii)
• Acknowledgements (p. xiv)
• Part I Introduction (p. 1)
• 1 Permanently Online and Permanently Connected: A New Paradigm in Communication Research? (p. 3)
• 2 A Brief History of Individual Addressability: The Role of Mobile Communication in Being Permanently Connected (p. 10)
• 3 The Permanently Online and Permanently Connected Mind: Mapping the Cognitive Structures Behind Mobile Internet Use (p. 18)
• 4 Methodological Challenges of POPC for Communication Research (p. 29)
• Part II POPC and Decision-Making: Selecting, Processing, and Multitasking (p. 41)
• 5 Reconceptualizing Uses and Gratifications vis-à-vis Smartphone Applications: The Case of WhatsApp (p. 43)
• 6 Always On? Explicating Impulsive Influences on Media Use (p. 51)
• 7 Permanence of Online Access and Internet Addiction (p. 61)
• 8 Multitasking: Does It Actually Exist? (p. 72)
• 9 Threaded Cognition Approach to Multitasking and Activity Switching in a Permanently Online and Permanently Connected Ecosystem (p. 83)
• Part III Social Dynamics of POPC: Self, Groups, and Relationships (p. 95)
• 10 Living in the Moment: Self-Narratives of Permanently Connected Media Users (p. 97)
• 11 Getting the Best Out of POPC While Keeping the Risks in Mind: The Calculus of Meaningfulness and Privacy (p. 107)
• 12 The Experience of Narrative in the Permanently Online, Permanently Connected Environment: Multitasking, Self-Expansion, and Entertainment Effects (p. 116)
• 13 Being POPC Together: Permanent Connectedness and Group Dynamics (p. 129)
• 14 POPC and Social Relationships (p. 140)
• 15 Between Surveillance and Sexting: Permanent Connectedness and Intimate Relationships (p. 149)
• Part IV Socialization in a POPC Environment: Development, Skill Acquisition, and Cultural Influences (p. 163)
• 16 Growing Up Online: Media Use and Development in Early Adolescence (p. 165)
• 17 Being Mindfully Connected: Responding to the Challenges of Adolescents Living in a POPC World (p. 176)
• 18 Permanent Connections Around the Globe: Cross-Cultural Differences and Intercultural Linkages in POPC (p. 188)
• Part V The POPC Citizen: Politics and Participation (p. 197)
• 19 The POPC Citizen: Political Information in the Fourth Age of Political Communication (p. 199)
• 20 The Networked Young Citizen as POPC Citizen (p. 208)
• 21 Permanent Entertainment and Political Behavior (p. 220)
• Part VI Brave New World: Networked Life and Well-Being (p. 231)
• 22 POPC and Well-Being: A Risk-Benefit Analysis (p. 233)
• 23 Being Permanently Online and Being Permanently Connected at Work: A Demands-Resources Perspective (p. 244)
• 24 The Dose Makes the Poison: Theoretical Considerations and Challenges of Health-Related POPC (p. 254)
• Index (p. 265)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Peter Vorderer is a professor of media and communication studies at the University of Mannheim. He served as president of the International Communication Association (ICA) from 2014 to 2015. His research focuses on media use and media effects with a special interest in entertainment research and new media and the question how does permanent connectedness with others via mobile devices changes individuals and society at large.
Dorothe Hefner is a research associate at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Her research focuses on (permanent) mobile phone use and digital connectedness and their antecedents, as well as implications for interpersonal communication, political information, and individual well-being.
Leonard Reinecke is an assistant professor at the Department of Communication at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. His research focuses on media uses and effects, media entertainment, and online communication. He has conducted research on various aspects of media use and well-being, including media-induced recovery from stress and strain and the interaction of media use and self-control.
Christoph Klimmt is a professor of communication at Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Beyond research on media entertainment, video games in particular, he is interested in media effects in news, advertising, risk, health, and science communication. Klimmt is currently serving as associate editor of the Journal of Media Psychology.