The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media

2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-75904-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 634 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions

This second edition of the groundbreaking Routledge Companion to Mobile Media brings together newly commissioned essays and cutting-edge research alongside updated essays from the original volume to create a definitive guide to mobile communication studies.

The collection, which brings together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, sets out to contextualize the increasingly convergent areas surrounding social, geosocial, and mobile media discourses. Essays provide comprehensive and interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing mobile media and draw upon a wide range of global case studies, from China, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, to Europe, the UK, and the US. This new edition also covers the many changes in the field over the last decade:  from dating apps, AI, mobile phones, travel, games, and digital transactions through drones, blockchain, microbilities, Virtual Reality, touch and haptic technology, to the role of mobile media in health, climate change, mobiles and electrification, digital migrant cultures, arts, creativity, and politics - and beyond.

This second edition remains an essential resource for upper-level students, researchers, and scholars interested in mobile media research.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goggin, Gerard

Hjorth, Larissa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

1.         Introduction: After Mobile Media

Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth

Part 1: Rethinking Mobile Media and its Futures

2.         “Mobile Media” and “Mobile Communication”: Reflections on the Discursive Power of Field Language

Scott W. Campbell

3.         Mobile Phones and Women: What’s the Point?

Leopoldina Fortunati

4.         The Future of Mobile Communication: Delights and Dilemmas that Lie Ahead

James E. Katz

5.         Super Apps in Mobile-First Societies: Contemplating “Transactionalism Creep”

Sun Sun Lim

6.         The Doubling of Time and Place

Hidenori Tomita

7.         The Epistemological Development of Mobile Communication Research

Rich Ling

8.         Five Eclectic Theses on the Future of Mobile Media Research. And All Coming from the Past!

Gabriele Balbi

9.         Entangled: Reciprocity, Obligation and Resistance in the Mobile-Primary World

Heather A. Horst

10.       Bringing Mobilities and Mobile Communication Together, All Over Again: The Case of Live Streaming

Christian Licoppe

11.       From Connection to Optimisation

Judy Wajcman

12.       Dispositions of Dis/Trust in Mobile Practices—Interpersonal, Algorithmic, and Embodied

Arul Chib and Ang Ming Wei

13.       I See You See Me: Mobile Phones as Critical Media

Nishant Shah

14.       Framing Location-based Micromobility as Mobility Justice in Networked Urban Spaces

Adriana De Souza E Silva

Part 2: Mobilities

15.       Mobile Politics, Media, Methods: A Climate Undercommons?

Monika Büscher

16.       Journeys: Smartphone-Connected Tourism

Andrew Duffy

17.       Virtual Reality Mobilities: Data, Power and Space in the Metaverse

Marcus Carter and Ben Egliston

18.       Drones, Media, and Mobilities

Julia M. Hildebrand

19.       Mobile Media Technologies and the Future of Charging

Sarah Pink

20.       Micromobility: Mobile Communication’s Not-So-Distant Cousin

Thilo Von Pape

21.       Ageing Migrants’ (Im)mobility In/Through Mobile Media

Ervin Charles B. Cabalquinto

22.       Mobile Media in Later Life: Older Chinese Australians’ Digital Experiences in a Time of Immobility

Xinyu Zhao and Wilfred Yang Wang

Part 3: Politics & Governance

23.       Mobile Chat Apps, Fragmentation, and Protest Movements

Colin Agur

24.       Mobile Publics on the Move: Ephemerality, Intimacy and Spatiality

Wendy Willems                                                                            

25.       Telecommunications Policy in a 5G Era

James Meese, Rowan Wilken, and Catherine Middleton

26.       Spectrum Policy

Catherine Middleton

27.       Mobile Media in Digital Governance: The Case of Weixin/WeChat

Haiqing Yu

28.       Algorithmic Solutionism of Platform Apps and the Spatial Metaphor of the Xiachen Market in China

Elaine Jing Zhao

29.       Drone Witnessing

Michael Richardson

30.       “Smartphone Governance”: Homelessness, Mobile Phones and Digital Exclusion in the Pandemic

Justine Humphry

31.       The Digital Inclusion Challenges Experienced by “Mobile Only” Australians

Kim Osman, Amber Marshall, Peta Mitchell, and Michael Dezuanni

32.       Mobile Digital Inequalities

Meryl Alper

Part 4: Economies and Transactions

33.       Changing Market Structures and New Services: Mobile Operators in Africa and Latin America

Peter Curwen and Jason Whalley

34.       App Ecosystem Analysis

Fernando Van Der Vlist, Anne Helmond, and Esther Weltevrede

35.       Mobile Phones in the Philippines: Colonial Legacies and Global Neoliberal Rationalities

Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco

36.       Mobile Transactional Cultures

Vincent Manzerolle and Michael S. Daubs

37.       Digital Transactions, Everyday Fintech and the Great Integration

Adrian Athique

38.       Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Mobile Devices

Ellie Rennie

Part 5: Platforms, Practices, Senses and Affordances

39.       WhatsApp in Latin America

Gabriel Pereira

40.       The Mobile Media of the Majority World: Data-Lite Platforms for the Less-Connected

Alette Schoon

41.       Shaping Identity through the Mobile Media of Tiktok

Crystal Abidin, and Harry Dyer

42.       Disaffection with Mobile Dating Apps: Reflections on Nostalgia, Safety and Social Change

Kath Albury

43.       Mobile Tones: Guitar Pedals, Mobility and Sonic Identity

Josh Nettheim

44.       Locative Media Design as Sound Art and Scholarship: Pioneering Generative Intersections of Mobile Technologies, Media Accessibility, and Place

Brett Oppegaard

45.       Mobile Media: Changing Touch Practices

Sara Price and Carey Jewitt

46.       The Mundane Haptics of Mobile Media

David Parisi

47.       The Rise of QR Codes During the Pandemic: An Australian Case Study

Hugh Davies, Larissa Hjorth, Mark Andrejevic, Ingrid Richardson, and Ruth Desouza

Part 6: Games, Play, Creativity and storytelling

48.       Mobile Games: Ambient Play, Haptic Mediation and Digital Wayfaring in Everyday Life

Ingrid Richardson and Larissa Hjorth

49.       Mobile First Gaming Economies in Southeast Asia

Kyle Moore

50.       Reconnecting Location-Based AR Games to Place

Troy Innocent, and Dale Leorke

51.       Mobile Media Creativity: Creative writing, photography, video and filmmaking

Marsha Berry

52.       Mobile Photograph and AI

Daniel Palmer

53.       The Multiplatform Mobile Museum: Dis/Entangling Digital, Social and Material Museum Worlds at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Jacina Leong, Indigo Holcombe-James, and Seb Chan

Part 7: Identities, Bodies, and Lives

54        Apps, Health, Embodiment and Care: A Critical and Sociomaterial Perspective

Deborah Lupton, Marianne Clark and Clare Southerton

55        Mobile Youth Culture 2.0: A Re-Conceptualisation Accounting for the Local Embedding of the Smartphone

Tom De Leyn, Euriahs Togar, Ralf De Wolf, Marjolijn Antheunis and Mariek Vanden Abeele

56        Parental Practices of Mobile Phone Use in Public Places: Differences and Similarities from Home

Nelly Elias and Dafna Lemish

57        Digital Migrant Cultures and Mobiles

Koen Leurs and Katja Kaufmann

58        Lost or Found in Transitions? Mobile Media Identities and Life Transitions in Later Life

Sakari Taipale and Loredana Ivan

59        Mobile Media, Language and Communication

Ana Deumert

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gerard Goggin is Distinguished Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. Goggin is author or editor of several books on mobile media and communication including: the trilogy Cell Phone Culture (2006), Global Mobile Media (2011) and Apps (2021); with Larissa Hjorth, Mobile Technologies (2008) and Mobile Media Methods (2024); with Rowan Wilken, Mobile Technology and Place (2012), Locative Media (2015), and Location Technologies in International Context (2019; also with Heather Horst). He also has longstanding interest in disability, media, and digital technology and rights, with key books including Disability and the Media (2015) and the co-edited Routledge Companion to Disability and Media (2020).

Larissa Hjorth is a digital ethnographer, socially-engaged artist and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT University. Hjorth has two decades experience leading mobile media projects to explore innovative methods around intergenerational connection, intimacy, games, play, loss and death in the Asia-Pacific region (Japan, South Korea, China and Australia). Hjorth’s Future Fellowship explores mobile media mourning rituals.  She is the author of Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (2009), Games and Gaming (2010), Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia–Pacific (with Michael Arnold, 2013), and Understanding Social Media (with Sam Hinton, 2013).