Everything about Media multitasking
Concurrent use of multiple media streams
Media multitasking is the concurrent use of multiple digital media streams. Media multitasking has been associated with depressive symptoms and social anxiety by a study involving 318 participants. A 2018 review found that while the literature is sparse and inconclusive, people who do a heavy amount of media multitasking have worse performance in several cognitive domains. One of the authors commented that while the data does not "unambiguously show that media multitasking causes a change in attention and memory," media multitasking is an inefficient practice that requires "task switching" costs including "limitations in auditory and visual processing". Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Media multitaskingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Self-Control and Digital Media Addiction: The Mediating Role of Media Multitasking and Time StyleInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: BrainchainsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The “Myth” of Media Multitasking: Reciprocal Dynamics of Media Multitasking, Personal Needs, and GratificationsCited 299 times
- Go sideways: Cognitive loadA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Human multitaskingA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The “Myth” of Media Multitasking: Reciprocal Dynamics of Media Multitasking, Personal Needs, and Gratifications
Media Multitasking Behavior: Concurrent Television and Computer Usage
Predictors of Multitasking with Media: Media Factors and Audience Factors
Media multitasking in adolescence
Does media multitasking always hurt? A positive correlation between multitasking and multisensory integration
Media Multitasking and Cognitive, Psychological, Neural, and Learning Differences
Multidimensions of Media Multitasking and Adaptive Media Selection
Age Differences in Media Multitasking: A Diary Study
🆕 Influential since 2022
Self-Control and Digital Media Addiction: The Mediating Role of Media Multitasking and Time Style
Not all media multitasking is the same: The frequency of media multitasking depends on cognitive and affective characteristics of media combinations.
Media-multitasking and cognitive control across the lifespan
Social media multitasking (SMM) and well-being: Existing evidence and future directions
Unraveling the link between media multitasking and attention across three samples.
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕BrainchainsTheo Compernolle · 2014
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