The sticky media device

Abstract

The dynamics of day-today interaction are based on various shared norms of conduct. These common rules are intertwined with the moral structures that members of society are expected to follow. In this chapter, we show how a parent's smartphone use can bring additional ambiguity and difficulty to communicating with his or her child and in fact challenge the conventional normative and moral structures of social actions. Because parentchild interaction is so crucial for the development of children, the challenges posed to it by ubiquitous media devices are one of the pressing issues of our time. In this chapter, we introduce a new concept, namely the 'sticky media device', which depicts how a media device appears to a person seeking face-to-face interaction with its user. Hence, it refers to a situation in which problems can be seen in acquiring the smartphone user's orientation for face-to-face interaction, which, even if momentarily gained, readily returns back to the device.

Phubbing and Social Intelligence: Role-Playing Experiment on Bystander Inaccessibility

“…The first version of the Bystander Inaccessibility Experiment was developed to test whether being ignored due to the use of a media artifact instigating less BI sparks less annoyance. Representative episodes of phubbing and being ignored due to another type of activity were developed based on studies using naturalistic data [ 23 ]. An anonymized cartoon-based representation was constructed of situations of being ignored due to smartphone use vs. due to reading a magazine (see Figure 1 and Figure 2 ).…”

“…Interactive research on phubbing is scarce [ 23 ]. Licoppe and Figeac studied how smartphone use while driving interacted with traffic light stops.…”

Two worlds collide? Mapping the third space of ICT integration in early childhood education

“…It was also believed that parents' own technology use takes time away from their children, and several essays portrayed parents as being unable to control their own technology use (Flewitt et al, 2015). In these representations, technology, especially smartphones, was represented as "sticky media devices" (Mantere & Raudaskoski, 2017), which refers to a situation in which a child tries to gain attention from a parent who is immersed in smartphone use. Parents' antisocial technology use was also believed to teach children similar behavioral models.…”