The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media

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.

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 Tables Acknowledgements 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. 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. Doubling of Time and Place Hidenori Tomita 7. 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 Livestreaming 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 Mobile 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 and 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: 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. 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. 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. Rise of QR Codes During the Pandemic: 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. 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: 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