Routledge Companion to Mobile Media

Gerard Goggin is Distinguished Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. Goggin has authored and edited 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 a long-standing 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).

• Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsContributors1. Introduction: After Mobile MediaGerard Goggin and Larissa HjorthPart 1: Rethinking Mobile Media and its Futures2. “Mobile Media” and “Mobile Communication”: Reflections on the Discursive Power of Field LanguageScott W. Campbell3. Mobile Phones and Women: What’s the Point?Leopoldina Fortunati4. Future of Mobile Communication: Delights and Dilemmas that Lie AheadJames E. Katz5. Super Apps in Mobile-First Societies: Contemplating “Transactionalism Creep”Sun Sun Lim6. Doubling of Time and PlaceHidenori Tomita7. Epistemological Development of Mobile Communication ResearchRich Ling8. Five Eclectic Theses on the Future of Mobile Media Research. And All Coming from the Past!Gabriele Balbi9. Entangled: Reciprocity, Obligation and Resistance in the Mobile-Primary WorldHeather A. Horst10. Bringing Mobilities and Mobile Communication Together, All Over Again: The Case of LivestreamingChristian Licoppe11. From Connection to OptimisationJudy Wajcman12. Dispositions of Dis/Trust in Mobile Practices—Interpersonal, Algorithmic and EmbodiedArul Chib and Ang Ming Wei13. I See You See Me: Mobile Phones as Critical Media Nishant Shah14. Framing Location-based Micromobility as Mobility Justice in Networked Urban SpacesAdriana De Souza E SilvaPart 2: Mobilities15. Mobile Politics, Media, Methods: A Mobile Undercommons?Monika Büscher16. Journeys: Smartphone-Connected TourismAndrew Duffy17. Virtual Reality Mobilities: Data, Power and Space in the MetaverseMarcus Carter and Ben Egliston18. Drones, Media and MobilitiesJulia M. Hildebrand19. Mobile Media Technologies and the Future of ChargingSarah Pink20. Micromobility: Mobile Communication’s Not-So-Distant CousinThilo Von Pape21. Ageing Migrants’ (Im)mobility In/Through Mobile MediaErvin Charles B. Cabalquinto22. Mobile Media in Later Life: Older Chinese Australians’ Digital Experiences in a Time of ImmobilityXinyu Zhao and Wilfred Yang WangPart 3: Politics and Governance23. Mobile Chat Apps, Fragmentation, and Protest MovementsColin Agur24. Mobile Publics on the Move: Ephemerality, Intimacy and SpatialityWendy Willems 25. Telecommunications Policy in a 5G EraJames Meese, Rowan Wilken, and Catherine Middleton26. Spectrum PolicyCatherine Middleton27. Mobile Media in Digital Governance: Case of Weixin/WeChatHaiqing Yu28. Algorithmic Solutionism of Platform Apps and the Spatial Metaphor of the Xiachen Market in ChinaElaine Jing Zhao29. Drone WitnessingMichael Richardson30. “Smartphone Governance”: Homelessness, Mobile Phones and Digital Exclusion in the PandemicJustine Humphry31. Digital Inclusion Challenges Experienced by “Mobile Only” AustraliansKim Osman, Amber Marshall, Peta Mitchell and Michael Dezuanni32. Mobile Digital InequalitiesMeryl AlperPart 4: Economies and Transactions33. Changing Market Structures and New Services: Mobile Operators in Africa and Latin AmericaPeter Curwen and Jason Whalley34. App Ecosystem Analysis Fernando Van Der Vlist, Anne Helmond and Esther Weltevrede35. Mobile Phones in the Philippines: Colonial Legacies and Global Neoliberal RationalitiesCecilia S. Uy-Tioco36. Mobile Transactional CulturesVincent Manzerolle and Michael S. Daubs37. Digital Transactions, Everyday Fintech and the Great IntegrationAdrian Athique38. Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Mobile DevicesEllie RenniePart 5: Platforms, Practices, Senses and Affordances39. WhatsApp in Latin AmericaGabriel Pereira40. Mobile Media of the Majority World: Data-Lite Platforms for the Less-ConnectedAlette Schoon41. Shaping Identity through the Mobile Media of TikTokCrystal Abidin, and Harry Dyer42. Disaffection with Mobile Dating Apps: Reflections on Nostalgia, Safety and Social ChangeKath Albury43. Mobile Tones: Guitar Pedals, Mobility and Sonic IdentityJosh Nettheim44. Locative Media Design as Sound Art and Scholarship: Pioneering Generative Intersections of Mobile Technologies, Media Accessibility and PlaceBrett Oppegaard45. Mobile Media: Changing Touch PracticesSara Price and Carey Jewitt46. The Mundane Haptics of Mobile MediaDavid Parisi47. Rise of QR Codes During the Pandemic: Australian Case StudyHugh Davies, Larissa Hjorth, Mark Andrejevic, Ingrid Richardson and Ruth DesouzaPart 6: Games, Play, Creativity and storytelling48. Mobile Games: Ambient Play, Haptic Mediation and Digital Wayfaring in Everyday LifeIngrid Richardson and Larissa Hjorth49. Mobile First Gaming Economies in Southeast AsiaKyle Moore50. Reconnecting Location-Based AR Games to PlaceTroy Innocent and Dale Leorke51. Mobile Media Creativity: Creative writing, photography, video and filmmakingMarsha Berry52. Mobile Photograph and AIDaniel Palmer53. 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 ChanPart 7: Identities, Bodies and Lives54 Apps, Health, Embodiment and Care: A Critical and Sociomaterial PerspectiveDeborah Lupton, Marianne Clark and Clare Southerton55 Mobile Youth Culture 2.0: Re-Conceptualisation Accounting for the Local Embedding of the SmartphoneTom De Leyn, Euriahs Togar, Ralf De Wolf, Marjolijn Antheunis and Mariek Vanden Abeele56 Parental Practices of Mobile Phone Use in Public Places: Differences and Similarities from HomeNelly Elias and Dafna Lemish57 Digital Migrant Cultures and MobilesKoen Leurs and Katja Kaufmann58 Lost or Found in Transitions? Mobile Media Identities and Life Transitions in Later Life Sakari Taipale and Loredana Ivan59 Mobile Media, Language and CommunicationAna DeumertIndex