Dear all,

In preparation for next Friday’s unit meeting, please find attached a draft paper that we are currently working on with Courtney and Antonis as part of the INEQNEWS project.

In this paper, we attempt to combine findings from a three-wave survey with insights from online in-depth data-trace interviews. While we initially planned to only circulate the literature review, we decided to also include the methods and (preliminary) results sections, as they may help provide a clearer sense of the overall direction of the paper.

While there’s no particular deadline, ideally, we hope to submit it sometime before the summer to journals such as Social Media + Society, Human Communication Research, or New Media & Society. We are not clear about this yet, so suggestions are of course very welcome.

In particular, we would greatly appreciate your thoughts on the following:

Is the problematization clear and convincing?
Is the literature review clear, and not too dense/repetitive?
We are currently experimenting with different ways of referring to “attention challenges” (e.g., attention control, attention problems). Since we do not want to frame this as a clinical issue but rather as a broader phenomenon related to attention, we would welcome suggestions on how best to approach this conceptually.
Any thoughts on key elements that should be highlighted in the discussion section?

Many thanks and looking forward to your feedback.

Have a great weekend!

Best,

Constanza