Multitasking as multisensory behavior: Revisiting media multitasking in the perspective of media ecology theory

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Highlights：

• McLuhan's media ecology theory helps understand the evolution of multitasking.

• Mobile media technologies reactivate multiple human senses in multitaskers.

• Users growing up with mobile media perform more multitasking.

• Mobile media use mediates the link between media generations and multitasking.

• Need for cognition moderates the link between mobile media use and multitasking.

摘要

•McLuhan's media ecology theory helps understand the evolution of multitasking.•Mobile media technologies reactivate multiple human senses in multitaskers.•Users growing up with mobile media perform more multitasking.•Mobile media use mediates the link between media generations and multitasking.•Need for cognition moderates the link between mobile media use and multitasking.

论文关键词：Media multitasking,Media generation,Power user,Need for cognition,Media ecology theory,Marshall McLuhan

论文评审过程：Received 30 May 2019, Revised 20 September 2019, Accepted 25 September 2019, Available online 26 September 2019, Version of Record 22 October 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.09.027