Measuring Media Multitasking

Media multitasking in adolescence.

Media use has been on the rise in adolescents overall, and in particular, the amount of media multitasking-multiple media consumed simultaneously, such as having a text message conversation while watching TV-has been increasing. In adults, heavy media multitasking has been linked with poorer performance on a number of laboratory measures of cognition, but no relationship has yet been establishe...

Mobile Media Use, Multitasking and Distractibility

Portable media devices are ubiquitous and their use has become a core component of many people’s daily experience, but to what effect? In this paper, the authors review research on the ways in which media use and multitasking relate to distraction, distractibility and impulsivity. They review recent research on the effects of media multitasking on driving, walking, work, and academic performanc...

The impact of media multitasking on learning

Does media multitasking always hurt? A positive correlation between multitasking and multisensory integration.

Heavy media multitaskers have been found to perform poorly in certain cognitive tasks involving task switching, selective attention, and working memory. An account for this is that with a breadth-biased style of cognitive control, multitaskers tend to pay attention to various information available in the environment, without sufficient focus on the information most relevant to the task at hand....

Forecasting errors in student media multitasking during homework completion

FORCASTING ERRORS IN STUDENT MEDIA MULTITASKING DURING HOMEWORK COMPLETION. Christopher A. Baker, Brittany E. Noah, Charles C. Calderwood, Jeffrey D. Green, Jennifer A. Joy-Gaba & Jaclyn M. Moloney, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA 232842018. Many students report that they multitask with media while doing homework, but we know very little about why they en...