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  • Publication
    A Time well wasted? Online Procrastination in Times of Unemployment
    (International Communication Association (ICA), 2015-05-25)
    Müller, Severina
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    Fieseler, Christian
    ;
    Suphan, Anne
    ;
    Meckel, Miriam
    This paper examines the argument that social exclusion perceived during unemployment leads to an escapist usage of online media, which in turn lowers job search efforts. Based on data from 386 unemployed heavy Internet users, the paper shows that online procrastination plays an important role in the lives of the unemployed, but not in a negative manner as to decrease their job search effort. The amount of motivational control the unemployed can muster exerts a strong effect on their job search effort, particularly for individuals with low self-efficacy and/or low job importance. Generally, heavy Internet users with low motivational control struggle more with their job search efforts. Low self-efficacy and/or low job importance increases this tendency additionally. Thus, for increasing the integration of this demographic, online media are not a detriment to reemployment, rather, skill-building and motivational support prove to be key antecedents to overcoming unemployment and should be fostered.
    Type: conference paper
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/106425
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    The Great Equalizer : Does the Internet empower the Unemployed?
    (Rotterdam School of Management, 2012-06-07)
    Feuls, Miriam
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    Fieseler, Christian
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    Suphan, Anne
    The ongoing digitalization affects all aspects of life, from the private to the professional sphere - on an individual, organizational and societal level. However, little is known about how marginalized groups, such as the unemployed, use the Internet in general or social media in particular and how they use them to build more strategic social relationships for finding new employment or their societal inclusion. In our contribution, we argue that there are different usage patterns along the interdependencies between recreational and instrumental use. Based on qualitative research performed with unemployed persons in Germany, we de-bate the usage of the Internet as compensating instrument for coping with unemployment and facilitating reentry into the job market. We particularly show that different usages of the In-ternet depend on socio-economic status, personality traits, motivational characteristics as well as different degrees of Internet literacy and experience.
    Type: conference paper
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/91486