List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

1. Introduction: After Mobile Media

Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth



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



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

Monika Buscher

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



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



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



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



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



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

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