Digital leisure or sleep priority? Strategic temporal negotiation of late-night smartphone use in China’s accelerated society
Published online on February 05, 2026
Abstract
New Media & Society, Ahead of Print.
This study reframes late-night smartphone use among Chinese young adults beyond pathologizing it as self-regulation failure. Integrating self-determination theory with social acceleration theory, we conceptualize this behavior as a strategic temporal ...
This study reframes late-night smartphone use among Chinese young adults beyond pathologizing it as self-regulation failure. Integrating self-determination theory with social acceleration theory, we conceptualize this behavior as a strategic temporal ...