Research Question

Merijn & Beneath

Savannah & Jasper

Ruxi & Marco

Environment

agre group

personal information

Habits

Indonesia with family

student room

3 hours to see someone or go out

prefer to stay home and then play on my phone and sleep.

check up on email/someone's work

personal information

a lot of cooking

negativity

i just don't like it anymore

study routine has crumbled

online presence

average is 50 minutes

attention span reduced

reasons to be online

entertainment

personal communication

offers distraction

increase ever since corona

more human interaction

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university

quite insecure and I don't feel very productive.

dissapointment

in lectures

wandering around for no particular reason

schedule during weekdays

more screen time because group work is online aswell

social media is designed to stay longer on the app.

check up on email/someone's work

mental health

university

I now mostly interact with my friends by playing video games together.

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I think it's easier to procrastinate

you become lost in social media

draining

teachers would not catch me using the phone

i was still as distracted and unmotivated

it requires more communication

effort and dedication

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girl

boy

20 year old

change of platforms

to watch memes, funny videos and sometimes the news.

just stay in the online class while being on Instagram.

easy to just grab your phone and scroll on your feed for some minutes

prec-covid

atmosphere

moving back

hometown/family

university

usage of phone

leisure activity

reading a book

sports

social platform influence

learning behaviour on my moitvation

lost sense of time

texting friends

incoming message draw attention from studying

entertainment vs university

keep contact

scrolling through instagram

life without covid

wouldnt be stuying so much at home

would be in the library studying

covid issues

distraction when you are at home

it has less to do with covid but the environment that they are

during lectures

not wasting my time as much

seeing other people study motivates me

productivity

social media usage increase

social media usage increase

wellbeing

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whatsapp

now you just stay in the same environment

other distraction (without screen)

planting

laundry

friends

'normal routine' of school

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less attention span

find stuff to do like cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, or redecorating my room

cooking

cleaning

hard to follow lectures

n front of your laptop and you distract yourself it sometimes is difficult to get focused again

I sometimes turn off my phone

group work

difficult to interact with one other

easier to meet outside the class

set a timer, or face time with friends

germany

18

walking dog

playing football

social platform mentioned

youtube

whatsapp

instagram

obstacles because of media

not really much affect towards it

independent learning is a bit more difficult.

easily distracted

drawn to text friends or quickly check Instagram

nationality

cause to be on social platform

friends in a different country

stay in cotnact

wechat

instragram

obstacle because of COVID-19

killing time acitivities

watching anime

everything is on media now, like our classes

is the online teaching

stract people a lot when you are trying to focus.

statistics

media 5-6 hours a day

I wake up at 9 or 10

, maybe increased.of media

social media informative purposes/study purpose

hear some news or something I wanna know about the Coronavirus

ou are not in a physical classroom

so the group work is less efficien

and you cannot see your fellow,

age

location

worrying about them (emotional baggage)

COVID 19 & PRECOVID same

I don't think the Coronavirus changed really anything

have to go to lessons, we still have to do our homewo

Coronavirus will let you feel really bad and start worrying about people

tensity of my uni work is not because of social media, but because of administrative matters.

facetime calls

The social media platforms I use and the motivation is almost like before.

I would use social media sometimes for university work or for projects.

aybe you have to deal with your landlord. He came to our house and started screaming that the room was not clean. And very tiny house work.

I don't really use social media in my study pr

social media does not affect stury result

underachieved in group

classmate who could not use WhatsApp

group prjects

ot everyone is in the study mode

n application to block all of my applications on my cell phon

romania

china

wake up at about 7 am

my main hobby is cycling, so that wasn't really affected by the Covid.

increase of social media and screen time

've managed to control them and I am just as motivated as I was before, even though it's harder.

ia you don't have a constant stream of information and that kind of decreases your attention

distraction to be active

I just look at random stuff

obstacle in universtiy

underachieved in groups

nstead of thinking about what the teacher has to say, I would talk to someone else

k I managed to stay relatively focused and it hasn't had a big impact.

work for 2-3 hours and then going to the gym in the evening.

stopped hobbies

fitness classes

social media can lead the student to procrastination and time-wasting in genera

usage of social media has remained the same, the level of motivation has not been much affected.

good at controlling it.

use it when taking a break from studying.

harder to communicate through video calls

spain

Groningen

Due to the restrictions I cannot do much but a walk or workout outside within 500m from your home is possible.

ld say 2/3 hours a day
media

Mostly wandering on social media platforms

: I think that social media is a double- edged sword, because it can do harm and good at the same time.

f he or she has a strong self- control then social media is not an obstacle

bringing joy and resources to people’s life.

bring ideas if one works in creative industries.

increase in social media

My study routine has been all over the place

feel like living in a bubble where I have no deadlines, or at least the deadlines

my social media use has always been high

lack of eye contact makes the message more difficult

20

netherland

9-11 breakfast and then lecture and seminar, llunch, it varies

'm a team leader in the supermarket. I've been working there for almost 4.5 years.

hobby stopped

'm a keen footballer, but because of the virus we couldn’t continue.

I watch videos on youtube every day

LinkedIn

Now that it's all home, it's a lot easier to shut down the laptop

. So my routine has changed a lot. Actually, my whole daily life has been turned around.

. It's easy for me to concentrate if I want to. It's not like social media is making it harder for me to concentrate.

When I get a notification, I'm tempted to take a look.

You're going to continue to study while you're still with your head on your phone. It keeps you from storing the information properly.

Usually the lectures were always in the morning, so for the first half hour I was often still waking up in the lecture hal

s now, you grab your phone and still have a tendency to stray. Or I'll talk to my peers, so you don't get all the information from the lecture either.

, I'll set a 45-minute alarm and then I'll put my phone somewhere else. Then I'll take a 15-minute break. That's how I learn the most effectively.

21

Of course, I see a lot less friends. There is very little to do, gyms are closed, restaurants and

The gyms are closed, my music school is closed. I still windsurf, but that's very weather-dependent of course.

I usually work at a lunchroom in the afternoon.

eat with friends or my roommate

I spend a lot of time studying there.

I actually find it especially annoying that the library is closed