My publications explore the everyday realities of digital technology use, with a particular focus on smartphone practices, digital addiction, and digital inequalities. My work also addresses methodological questions, interdisciplinarity, digital literacy, and the broader societal impacts of digitalization.
Tulasiewicz, T., Jovicic, S. (eds). (in preparation). Ethnographies of Digital Addiction, Harm, and Repair. An Anthropological Perspective.
Jovicic, S. (in press). The Unbearable Lightness of Scrolling: Viennese Youth and the Guilty Pleasure of Wasting Time. Berghahn Books.
Jovicic, S. (in press). Unsere App löst nix: Eine kultur- und sozialanthropologische Expedition in die Informatik. In: Informatik und Gesellschaft – Ein umfassender Grundkurs, Lehrbuch Springer Vieweg.
Stodulka, T., Kajanus, A., Jovicic, S. (eds). (in press). Special Section:Prospects and Futures of Psychological Anthropology. Ethos.
Jovicic, S., Göbl, B., Verstappen, S., Kayali, F. (2024). Drifting into Uncertainty: Design Anthropology and HCI Entanglements.
Pfeifer, S., Jovicic, S. (2023). Co-Teaching Postdigital Ethnography, Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation. Collaborative Research Center Media of Cooperation.
Göbl, B., Duvivié, M., Jovicic, S., & Kayali, F. (2023). Towards Bridging the Gap between Participatory Design and Formal Education. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, Chicago: 652–656.
Jovicic, S. (2023). Digitale Storys: Kurze Videos als Recherche. Computational Empowerment. Broschüre des Zentrums für LehrerInnenbildung, University of Vienna.
Jovicic, S. (2022). The Affective Triad: Smartphone in the Ethnographic Encounter. Media and Communication. 10(3), 225-235.
Hristova, D., Jovicic, S., Göbl, B., De Freitas, S., Slunecko, T. (2022). Why did we lose our Snapchat Streak? Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 5: 1-8.
Jovicic, S., Göbl, B., Hristova, D. (2021). The secret chamber of interdisciplinary collaboration: Negotiating OutSmart!, a serious game for adolescents. Gamevironments, 15: 277-297.
Göbl, B., Jovicic, S., Denk, N., Kriglstein, S. (2021). Let’s Play – Professional Views on Barriers and Potentials in Digital Gaming and E-Sports. 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, Association for Computing Machinery: 314-319.
Göbl, B., Hristova, D., Jovicic, S., Kriglstein, S., Hlavacs, H. (2021). OutSmart! Evaluation of a Serious Game and its Conversational Interface for Reflective Social Media Use. Game On Conference 2021. Aveiro, Portugal, EUROSIS: 102-109.
Jovicic, S., (2020). Scrolling and the In-Between Spaces of Boredom: An Ethnographic Study of Youths on the Periphery of Vienna. Ethos: 48 (4): 498-516.
Dillon, R., Chawla, S., Hristova, D., Göbl, B., Jovicic, S. (2020). Password Policies vs. Usability: When Do Users Go „Bananas“? 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), IEEE: 148-153.
Hristova, D., Göbl, B., Jovicic, S., Slunecko, T. (2019). The Social Media Game? How Gamification Shapes Our Social Media Engagement. In: Dillon R. (ed.) The Digital Gaming Handbook, CRC Press: 63-94.
Göbl, B., Hristova, D., Jovicic, S., Hlavacs. H. (2019). Serious Game Design for and with Adolescents: Empirically Based Implications for Purposeful Games. HCI in Games Conference, Springer Nature Switzerland AG: 398-410.
Göbl, B., Hristova, D., Jovicic, S., Slunecko, T., Chevron, M.-F., Hlavacs, H. (2019). Fostering Social Media Literacy through a Participatory Mixed-Methods Approach: Discussion of Workshop Findings. 2019 IEEE 6th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH). IEEE: 1-8.
Jovicic, S., Göbl, B., Hristova, D. (2019). Digitale Anthropologie aus kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Sicht. OVE Schriftenreihe. OVE Österreichischer Verband für Elektrotechnik.
Jovicic, S., Göbl, B., Hristova, D. (2019). Verspielte Grenzen des Digitalen: Relationalität und Verhandlung gamifizierter Räume in Wiener Jugendvereinen. Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 149: 177-194.
Jovicic, S. (2018). Barbed Wire Fence and Viennese Coffee Houses: A Review of the 2017 Edition of Ethnocineca International Documentary Film Festival Vienna. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 27(1): 141-143.
Göbl, B., Hristova, D., Jovicic, S., Slunecko, T., Chevron, M-F., Hlavacs, H. (2018). Towards a More Reflective Social Media Use Through Serious Games and Co-design. Serious Games: 4th Joint International Conference (JCSG) Proceedings, Springer: 229-234.
Jovicic, S. (2018). Ramella, Anna Lisa – Lehmuskallio, Asko – Thielmann, Tristan – Abend, Pablo (Hrsg.): Mobile Digital Practices. Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 148: 351-355.