Matthew Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3822953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swinburne University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7739-7075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Examining effectual, ineffectual and problematic smartphone use
This qualitative study examines the multifaceted influences that shape effectual, ineffectual, and problematic smartphone use, as well as the strategies individuals employ to manage their smartphone dependence. Guided by the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), and Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT), this research examined how cognitive, motivational, and behavioural factors interact in everyday smartphone engag…
Examining smartphone usage behaviour in the Covid-19 era
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a significant surge in smartphone usage, turning it into an essential tool for maintaining social connections, working remotely, and accessing information and entertainment. As a global situational and contextual disruption, this shift in smartphone usage during the pandemic has far-reaching implications, shaping post-pandemic usage patterns and potential dependencies on digital technology. Guided primarily by the U…
Understanding smartphone usage behaviours
This study involved developing and validating a brief problematic smartphone use and dependence (BPSUD) scale in a diverse adult Australian population to gain insights into causes and build a foundation for the prevention of PSUD. A sample of 1018 participants responded to a cross-sectional online survey. The study identified a uni-dimensional factor structure for the 4-item self-reported BPSUD scale, explaining 53.50% of the total variance, with…
Examining Screen Time Features for Managing Problematic Smartphone Use and Dependence
Problematic smartphone use and dependence (PSUD) causes significant concerns, often resulting from excessive and habitual smartphone usage beyond functional needs. This study employs a mixed‐methods approach with an explanatory sequential design to investigate the factors influencing PSUD, while explicitly focusing on screen time features for management. By integrating the novel concept of the perceived awareness construct into the technology acc…
Crossing and Questioning Boundaries
PRACTICALLY RELIGIOUS: WORLDLY BENEFITS AND THE COMMON RELIGION OF JAPAN. By Ian Reader and George J. Tanabe. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 303. THE WEAVING OF MANTRA: KŪKAI AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ESOTERIC BUDDHIST DISCOURSE. By Ryūichi Abé. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii + 593. THE IMPACT OF BUDDHISM ON CHINESE MATERIAL CULTURE. By John Kieschnick. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. vi…
Exploring smartphone usage patterns and perceived dependency
Doing Harm with Things
Criminology has increasingly recognized the roles technologies play in an array of harms, with scholars developing a variety of techno-social accounts of crime and harm. In developing such accounts, scholars face the challenge of adequately accounting for the myriad ways humans can, whether intended or not, harm with things. This article argues that this challenge can be addressed by disentangling the concatenation of relations between intentions…
Opening the Curtains on Popular Practice
In this article I discuss the continuity and changes of displays of temple and shrine treasures ( kaichō ) in the Meiji and Taisho periods. I estimate the number and features of kaichō in these periods primarily using articles in the Yomiuri shinbun and Shinano mainichi shinbun newspapers. I discuss the ways that these displays intersected with aspects of the Meiji period, including changing laws and the expansion of a convenient transportation n…
Regulating chance
This article outlines the history of lotteries in Japan, why and how Buddhist temples used them to raise funds for temple repairs in the early modern period (c. 1600–1868), and the larger moral-economic debates in which they became embroiled. It shows that while lotteries are worth examining for their importance to the maintenance of Buddhist temples in the early modern period, their study also provides a window into the competing values and inte…
Christian Sorcerers on Trial
Prohibiting the Queer Body
A tragedy of the anticommons
Some More Light on the Text
Study of film and media may be a growth area for biblical scholars, but as far as the sub-field of Pauline scholarship is concerned, the direct use of Pauline materials by popular media is relatively rare. A notable exception occurs in Season One of the HBO television series Deadwood, in which recurring and explicit use of Paul’s letters is made. However, rather than finding new meaning in the selected passages, this paper argues that the specifi…
Justifying Human Rights
Matthew S. Mitchell is a recent graduate of Harvard Divinity School with a concentration in Religion, Ethics, and Politics. Notes 1. The imaginary woman, Sarah, is a character that Perry employs to demonstrate his point about Christian love in "The Morality of Human Rights: A Nonreligious Ground?" (2005) and notes that the love that Sarah exemplifies "is, obviously, an ideal. Moreover, it is, for most human beings, an extremely demanding idea; fo…
Evidence for response bias as a source of error variance in applied assessment
After 100 years of discussion, response bias remains a controversial topic in psychological measurement. The use of bias indicators in applied assessment is predicated on the assumptions that (a) response bias suppresses or moderates the criterion-related validity of substantive psychological indicators and (b) bias indicators are capable of detecting the presence of response bias. To test these assumptions, we reviewed literature comprising inve…
Military Veterans Sharing First‐Person Stories of War and Homecoming
What power, meaning and value may exist within a soldier's first‐person war story? Former Marine captain Tyler Boudreau, quoted below, suggests that constructing a personal narrative of the traumas of war and homecoming, then “asking questions” of the story, can provide a veteran with a “chart.” If this is so, can that chart help one along the road to healing from those traumas, especially when that story is shared with others? Could there be dan…
Biblical Studies on the Internet
Rewarding Sequential Innovators
This paper presents a model of cumulative innovation in which firms are heterogeneous in their research ability. We study the optimal reward policy when the quality of the ideas and their subsequent development effort are private information. Monopoly power is a scarce resource to be allocated across innovators who arrive at various times. The optimal assignment of property rights must counterbalance the incentives of current and future innovator…
Exploring the Future of the Digital Divide through Ethnographic Futures Research
This study examines leaders who work for social change in an information society. Grounded in the notion that leadership and social change are necessarily future oriented, this study attempts to learn how those who lead the effort to ameliorate the digital divide in Washington State perceive the optimistic, pessimistic, and most probable futures. In this study, the digital divide is framed as a social problem that is caused, in part, by inequitie…
Evidence for response bias as a source of error variance in applied assessment
After 100 years of discussion, response bias remains a controversial topic in psychological measurement. The use of bias indicators in applied assessment is predicated on the assumptions that (a) response bias suppresses or moderates the criterion-related validity of substantive psychological indicators and (b) bias indicators are capable of detecting the presence of response bias. To test these assumptions, we reviewed literature comprising inve…
Prohibiting the Queer Body
Military Veterans Sharing First‐Person Stories of War and Homecoming
What power, meaning and value may exist within a soldier's first‐person war story? Former Marine captain Tyler Boudreau, quoted below, suggests that constructing a personal narrative of the traumas of war and homecoming, then “asking questions” of the story, can provide a veteran with a “chart.” If this is so, can that chart help one along the road to healing from those traumas, especially when that story is shared with others? Could there be dan…
A tragedy of the anticommons
Rewarding Sequential Innovators
This paper presents a model of cumulative innovation in which firms are heterogeneous in their research ability. We study the optimal reward policy when the quality of the ideas and their subsequent development effort are private information. Monopoly power is a scarce resource to be allocated across innovators who arrive at various times. The optimal assignment of property rights must counterbalance the incentives of current and future innovator…
Exploring the Future of the Digital Divide through Ethnographic Futures Research
This study examines leaders who work for social change in an information society. Grounded in the notion that leadership and social change are necessarily future oriented, this study attempts to learn how those who lead the effort to ameliorate the digital divide in Washington State perceive the optimistic, pessimistic, and most probable futures. In this study, the digital divide is framed as a social problem that is caused, in part, by inequitie…
Biblical Studies on the Internet
Rewarding Sequential Innovators
This paper presents a model of cumulative innovation in which firms are heterogeneous in their research ability. We study the optimal reward policy when the quality of the ideas and their subsequent development effort are private information. Monopoly power is a scarce resource to be allocated across innovators who arrive at various times. The optimal assignment of property rights must counterbalance the incentives of current and future innovator…
Military Veterans Sharing First‐Person Stories of War and Homecoming
What power, meaning and value may exist within a soldier's first‐person war story? Former Marine captain Tyler Boudreau, quoted below, suggests that constructing a personal narrative of the traumas of war and homecoming, then “asking questions” of the story, can provide a veteran with a “chart.” If this is so, can that chart help one along the road to healing from those traumas, especially when that story is shared with others? Could there be dan…
Justifying Human Rights
Matthew S. Mitchell is a recent graduate of Harvard Divinity School with a concentration in Religion, Ethics, and Politics. Notes 1. The imaginary woman, Sarah, is a character that Perry employs to demonstrate his point about Christian love in "The Morality of Human Rights: A Nonreligious Ground?" (2005) and notes that the love that Sarah exemplifies "is, obviously, an ideal. Moreover, it is, for most human beings, an extremely demanding idea; fo…
Evidence for response bias as a source of error variance in applied assessment
After 100 years of discussion, response bias remains a controversial topic in psychological measurement. The use of bias indicators in applied assessment is predicated on the assumptions that (a) response bias suppresses or moderates the criterion-related validity of substantive psychological indicators and (b) bias indicators are capable of detecting the presence of response bias. To test these assumptions, we reviewed literature comprising inve…
Some More Light on the Text
Study of film and media may be a growth area for biblical scholars, but as far as the sub-field of Pauline scholarship is concerned, the direct use of Pauline materials by popular media is relatively rare. A notable exception occurs in Season One of the HBO television series Deadwood, in which recurring and explicit use of Paul’s letters is made. However, rather than finding new meaning in the selected passages, this paper argues that the specifi…
A tragedy of the anticommons
Christian Sorcerers on Trial
Prohibiting the Queer Body
Opening the Curtains on Popular Practice
In this article I discuss the continuity and changes of displays of temple and shrine treasures ( kaichō ) in the Meiji and Taisho periods. I estimate the number and features of kaichō in these periods primarily using articles in the Yomiuri shinbun and Shinano mainichi shinbun newspapers. I discuss the ways that these displays intersected with aspects of the Meiji period, including changing laws and the expansion of a convenient transportation n…
Regulating chance
This article outlines the history of lotteries in Japan, why and how Buddhist temples used them to raise funds for temple repairs in the early modern period (c. 1600–1868), and the larger moral-economic debates in which they became embroiled. It shows that while lotteries are worth examining for their importance to the maintenance of Buddhist temples in the early modern period, their study also provides a window into the competing values and inte…
Examining Screen Time Features for Managing Problematic Smartphone Use and Dependence
Problematic smartphone use and dependence (PSUD) causes significant concerns, often resulting from excessive and habitual smartphone usage beyond functional needs. This study employs a mixed‐methods approach with an explanatory sequential design to investigate the factors influencing PSUD, while explicitly focusing on screen time features for management. By integrating the novel concept of the perceived awareness construct into the technology acc…
Crossing and Questioning Boundaries
PRACTICALLY RELIGIOUS: WORLDLY BENEFITS AND THE COMMON RELIGION OF JAPAN. By Ian Reader and George J. Tanabe. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 303. THE WEAVING OF MANTRA: KŪKAI AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ESOTERIC BUDDHIST DISCOURSE. By Ryūichi Abé. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii + 593. THE IMPACT OF BUDDHISM ON CHINESE MATERIAL CULTURE. By John Kieschnick. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. vi…
Exploring smartphone usage patterns and perceived dependency
Doing Harm with Things
Criminology has increasingly recognized the roles technologies play in an array of harms, with scholars developing a variety of techno-social accounts of crime and harm. In developing such accounts, scholars face the challenge of adequately accounting for the myriad ways humans can, whether intended or not, harm with things. This article argues that this challenge can be addressed by disentangling the concatenation of relations between intentions…
Examining effectual, ineffectual and problematic smartphone use
This qualitative study examines the multifaceted influences that shape effectual, ineffectual, and problematic smartphone use, as well as the strategies individuals employ to manage their smartphone dependence. Guided by the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), and Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT), this research examined how cognitive, motivational, and behavioural factors interact in everyday smartphone engag…
Examining smartphone usage behaviour in the Covid-19 era
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a significant surge in smartphone usage, turning it into an essential tool for maintaining social connections, working remotely, and accessing information and entertainment. As a global situational and contextual disruption, this shift in smartphone usage during the pandemic has far-reaching implications, shaping post-pandemic usage patterns and potential dependencies on digital technology. Guided primarily by the U…
Understanding smartphone usage behaviours
This study involved developing and validating a brief problematic smartphone use and dependence (BPSUD) scale in a diverse adult Australian population to gain insights into causes and build a foundation for the prevention of PSUD. A sample of 1018 participants responded to a cross-sectional online survey. The study identified a uni-dimensional factor structure for the 4-item self-reported BPSUD scale, explaining 53.50% of the total variance, with…
Computer Science (7 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Technology Adoption and User Behaviour (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works)