TY - BOOK TI - Permanently online, permanently connected: living and communicating in a POPC world SN - 9781138244993 (hardback) U1 - 302.23 PY - 2018/// CY - Routledge PB - New York KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Technological innovations KW - Internet KW - Social aspects KW - Cell phones N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; A brief history of individual addressability: The role of mobile communication in being permanently connected -- The Permanently Online and Permanently Connected Mind: Mapping the Cognitive Structures behind Mobile Internet Use -- Methodological Challenges of POPC for Communication Research -- Reconceptualizing uses and gratifications vis-à-vis smartphone applications: The case of WhatsApp -- Always On? Explicating Impulsive Influences on Media Use -- Permanence of Online Access and Internet Addiction -- Multitasking: Does It Actually Exist? -- Threaded Cognition Approach to Multitasking and Activity Switching in a Permanently Online and Permanently Connected Ecosystem -- Living in the moment: Self-Narratives of Permanently Connected Media Users -- Getting the Best Out of POPC While Keeping the Risks in Mind: The Calculus of Meaningfulness and Privacy -- The Experience of Narrative in the Permanently Online, Permanently Connected Environment: Multitasking, Self-Expansion, and Entertainment Effects -- Being POPC together: Permanent Connectedness and Group Dynamics -- POPC and Social Relationships -- Between Surveillance and Sexting: Permanent Connectedness and Intimate Relationships -- Growing Up Online: Media Use and Development in Early Adolescence -- Being Mindfully Connected -- Responding to the Challenges of Adolescents living in a POPC World -- Permanent Connections Around the Globe -- The POPC Citizen: Political Information in the Fourth Age of Political Communication -- The Networked Young Citizen as POPC (permanently online, permanently connected) Citizen -- Permanent Entertainment and Political Behavior -- POPC and Well-Being: A Risk-Benefit Analysis -- Being permanently online and being permanently connected at work: A demands-resources perspective -- The Dose Makes the Poison: Theoretical Considerations and Challenges of Health-Related POP ER -