Papers by Hananel Rosenberg
Effective parental strategies against problematic smartphone use among adolescents: A 6-month prospective study
Addictive behaviors, Jul 1, 2024
Problematic Smartphone Use (PSU) among adolescents is growing problem worldwide and multiple stud... more Problematic Smartphone Use (PSU) among adolescents is growing problem worldwide and multiple studies investigated its associated parental risk and protective factors. The available studies, however, typically do not address the multidimensional nature of PSU. They also rely heavily on cross-sectional designs with a small number of potentially contributing variables. This 6-month prospective study examines the relationships between a large range of parental factors with the three known dimensions of PSU: social environment pressure, emotional gain, and addiction-like behaviors. Specifically the study examines whether, and to what extent, the various dimensions of current and future PSU are related to parental support giving, general quality of communication, specific communication about smartphone use, and the four common mediation strategies. The sample comprised 1187 triads of mothers, fathers, and adolescents. The data-analysis pipeline consisted of three consecutive phases: (1) analyses of parental factors at baseline, (2) analyses of parental factors change over 6- months, and (3) interaction analyses between parental factors and the time-period of the study. The pipeline elicited three factors that moderated the change in PSU over time: Communication about smartphones with mothers, parental support giving, and parental co-use. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of the existing literature and the familial, microsystem theoretical framework. Altogether, this prospective study scrutinized key parental factors and strategies that could be utilized by parents for coping with one of the most difficult parenting challenges of the digital era. Further research may build upon these findings to develop designated interventions to reduce PSU.
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Screen Time and Autism Spectrum Disorder
JAMA network open, Dec 7, 2023
Latent Profile Analysis of Problematic Smartphone Use and Parental Strategies: A Six-month Prospective Study
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
Problematic smartphone use (PSU) is an increasingly prevalent disorder among adolescents. We aime... more Problematic smartphone use (PSU) is an increasingly prevalent disorder among adolescents. We aimed to identify unique smartphone use profiles and examine whether different parental factors and adolescent smartphone use severity might explain these profiles. The sample comprised 1,187 Israeli families comprising mother/father/adolescent triads (48% boys, 51% girls; ages 14–18). Latent profile analysis identified three distinct profiles of smartphone use: “normative use” (n = 435), “mild problematic use” (n = 481), and “severe problematic use” (n = 271). Subsequent MANOVAs revealed that parents of children with a severe PSU profile reported the highest severity levels, lowest communication, and support provided to their adolescents, and greater tendencies toward restrictive and negative active mediation strategies. These findings were consistent with the adolescents’ perceptions. Fathers of children with a mild problematic use profile reported increased support giving over a six-month period. The research provides a more individualized approach to understanding smartphone use among adolescents.
Religions
Pashkevilim, printed wall notices posted around Jewish ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, serve as one... more Pashkevilim, printed wall notices posted around Jewish ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, serve as one of the religious community’s popular communication channels. The Pashkevilim mostly deal with controversial intra-community issues and feature a unique style, extremist rhetoric, and vocabulary derived from the religious literature. Humorous imitations of the genre arose over the years, which circulated in the community and outside of it, posing a challenge to the rabbinic hegemony. Although humorous Pashkevilim have likely been present for as long as Pashkevilim themselves, there is currently a lack of research investigating them. By adopting a critical discourse analysis approach, the current study aims to address this gap by identifying the predominant types of humorous Pashkevilim and analyzing the discursive practices they employ. The findings indicate three main discursive practices that characterize humorous Pashkevilim: parody, satire, and irony. While parody exaggerates the for...
Journal of Child and Family Studies
The contemporary parenting challenge of regulating children's screen time became even more diffic... more The contemporary parenting challenge of regulating children's screen time became even more difficult during the coronavirus pandemic . The current research addresses the characteristics of this challenge and explores mothers' perceptions regarding their children's screen use, through two consecutive studies. Study 1 included 299 mothers of elementary school children, who were asked to complete questionnaires regarding their children's screen habits. Mothers were also asked about their own attitudes towards screens, as parents, and about their personal feelings of frustration and guilt. Study 2 replicated this procedure among a new sample of 283 mothers who also completed validated scales assessing their sense of parental competence and authority style. Retrospective reports of mothers indicated that, during the lockdown, entertainment use of screens increased by 73% among 4 th -6 th graders and by 108% among 1 st -3 rd graders. Educational use increased by 86% in both age groups. Mothers' guilt increased as well and was predicted by children's entertainment use (but not educational use), after accounting for demographic variables and mothers' attitudes. Other factors, such as parenting style and having at-least one child with a diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), were associated with entertainment use (regardless of the COVID-19 lockdown). Factors that were found to moderate the lockdown effect were mothers' attitudes towards screens and parental confidence. The findings are discussed in the context of parents' efforts to regulate their children's screen use. Screen use • COVID-19 • Parenting style • Parental competence • ADHD Highlights • Children's screen time is a major parenting challenge today.
A Quarantine That Led to Openness? Distance Learning in the Ultra-Orthodox Sector During the Corona Period
INTED2021 Proceedings, 2021
Challenges in Jewish Communities Online
Oxford University Press eBooks, Dec 19, 2022
Authority: the passive-aggressive Haredi campaign against the smartphone
Digital Religion, 2021
Religions
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Mobile phones and the experience of time: New perspectives from a deprivation study of teenagers
Time & Society
A number of studies have sought to understand how mobile phones affect time practices, and beyond... more A number of studies have sought to understand how mobile phones affect time practices, and beyond them, the experience of time in users’ daily lives. This article is a further effort in that direction, employing the deprivation study method. We conducted a field study of 80 adolescents, or “cellular natives,” separating them from their cellphones for 1 week. The findings indicate that the cellphone’s absence indeed had a dominant impact on a variety of adolescents’ time-related practices and experience, that yielded in turn both negative and positive feelings. We propose three main axes for understanding the cellphone’s implications for the time experience: The mobile’s flexible time v. Rigid time, its ritual time v. Linear time, and its fragmented time v. Continuous time. In all these dimensions, we point to distinct features of the time experience associated with the mobile phone, and also try to relate it to the emotional state and state of mind of today’s teens. In conclusion, w...
M-governments in the local level: An exploratory study
2017 8th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems & Applications (IISA), 2017
Smartphone applications for communication between municipalities and residents become common, but... more Smartphone applications for communication between municipalities and residents become common, but the academic literature covering them is lacking. In this exploratory, multi-method study, we offer a review of the phenomena of dedicated municipal apps, explore the extent of penetration of municipal applications in an Internet-savvy country, analyze the profiles of adopting and non-adopting municipalities, and classify the apps' common features.
Pashkevilim in Campaigns Against New Media What Can Pashkevilim Accomplish That Newspapers Cannot
Routledge, Apr 10, 2015
Mobile applications in local government
Electronic Government, an International Journal, 2021
The study explores the state of penetration and usage of municipal smartphone applications in Isr... more The study explores the state of penetration and usage of municipal smartphone applications in Israel-an internet-savvy country. We explore the extent of penetration of the applications, analyse the profiles of adopting and non-adopting municipalities, classify the apps' common features, and analyse the motivations for developing them, and perceived challenges and drawbacks of using them. The findings demonstrate that the adoption rate of municipal apps in Israel is 42.7%, in the advanced stage of the new technology adoption curve. Significant correlations were found between the size of a municipality, its geographical location, residents' education, socioeconomic status, and the adoption of mobile applications by the municipality. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Lev-On, A. and Rosenberg, H. (2021) 'Mobile applications in local government', Electronic Government, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp.183-198. Biographical notes: Azi Lev-On is a faculty member in the School of Communication in the Ariel University. His research focuses on the social and political uses and perceived effects of social media, including public participation and deliberation online, online communities, collective action and campaigns, and behaviours in computer-mediated environments, employing a variety of methods such as content analysis, interviews and laboratory experiments. Hananel Rosenberg is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication at the Ariel University. His main research interests are the psychology and sociology of mobile phone usage and media usage among religious groups.
Social Media and Educational Authority: The Case of Whatsapp
INTED2021 Proceedings, 2021
Many argue that the interaction between teachers and students through social media challenges edu... more Many argue that the interaction between teachers and students through social media challenges educational authority. To shed more light on this question, the paper studies students' perceptions of teacher authority among members of class WhatsApp groups shared by students and educators. The qualitative analysis draws on 35 in-depth interviews with high-schoolers studying in a religious educational framework, characterized by a conservative view of teacher authority. The findings demonstrate that the use of WhatsApp as a central channel of student-teacher interaction indeed undermines teacher authority, for two main reasons: a) The nature of the platform: the lack of physical authority, disregard for written discourse, the ease of insubordination, demonstration of pedagogic superiority, and online group pressure all challenge teacher authority b) The development of six common response patterns which allow students to defy teacher authority on WhatsApp: ignoring the messages, leaving the group, transferring to another mode (e.g., voicemail), defamation of the teacher on a parallel group, defiant discussion devoid of body language, and ambiguous cynical responses. Such reactions are unique to social media groups in platforms such as WhatsApp, and are virtually non-replicable in the physical classroom. Overall, the study demonstrates that social media platforms such as WhatsApp tend to "flatten out" educational hierarchies and undermine traditional forms of authority. It highlights the need for educators to become familiar and gain proficiency with online social-media forms of student-teacher interaction.
Science Has Not Proven That Screen Use Impacts Children's Brain Development
JAMA Pediatrics, 2020
On January 16, 2020, a CNN article announced neurobiologic evidence pointing to “the potential be... more On January 16, 2020, a CNN article announced neurobiologic evidence pointing to “the potential benefits of reading and the potential detriments of screen time on a preschool child’s brain development.”1 This article relied on 2 scientific articles by Hutton et al, which were published within weeks of each other, one in JAMA Pediatrics2 (November 4, 2019) and one in Acta Paediatrica3 (December 18, 2019). However, the aforementioned statement regarding screen time and brain development may not be accurate.
Children and Youth Services Review, 2021
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