Jane Vincent - Smartphone Cultures

Smartphone Cultures explores emerging questions about the ways in which this mobile technology and its apps have been produced, represented, regulated and incorporated into everyday social practices. The various authors in this volume each locate their contributions within the circuit of culture model.

More specifically, this book engages with issues of production and regulation in the case of the electrical infrastructure supporting smartphones and the development of mobile social gambling apps. It examines issues of consumption through looking at parental practices relating to childrens smartphone use, childrens experience of the regulation of this technology, both in the home and in school, how they cope with the mass of communications via the smartphone and the nature of their attachment to the device. Other chapters cover the engagement of older people with smartphones, as well as how different cultural norms of sociability have a bearing on how the technology is consumed. The smartphones implications for other theoretical frameworks is illustrated through examining ramifications for domestication, and the sometimes-limited place of smartphones in certain aspects of life is examined through its role in the practices of reading and writing. Smartphone Cultures presents the latest international research from scholars located in the UK, Europe, the US and Australia and will appeal to scholars and students of media and cultural studies, communication studies and sociologists with interests in technology and social practices.

Jane Vincent is Senior Researcher and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science and member of EU COST Actions examining print and digital media, and media issues in ageism. Jane is co-editor of publications including Social Robots from a Human Perspective, Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology from a Global Perspective and Electronic Emotions, The Mediation of Emotions via Information and Communication Technologies.

Leslie Haddon is Senior Researcher and Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is the author of Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life, co-author of The Shape of Things to Consume and Mobile Communications: An Introduction to New Media, editor of The Contemporary Internet and co-editor of Everyday Innovators, The Social Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology, Generational Use of New Media, Kids Online and Kids Risk and Safety Online.

Edited by Jane Vincent and Leslie Haddon

First published 2018

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Csar Albarrn-Torres is Lecturer in Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology. He is widely published in academic and non-academic outlets as a researcher, writer and film critic. His research focuses on digital gambling platforms, political activism and mobile media in Mexico and film.

Naomi S. Baron is the Executive Director of the Center for Teaching, Research and Learning and Professor of Linguistics at American University in Washington, DC. Her research interests include electronically mediated communication, writing and technology, the history of English, and higher education. A former Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Fellow, she has published eight books. Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World won the English-Speaking Unions Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Award for 2008. Her newest book (2015) is Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World. She taught at Brown University, Emory University and Southwestern University before coming to American University, where she has served as Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, Chair of the Department of Language and Foreign Studies, and Director of the TESOL Program.

Carla Barros is Professor at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies and at the Graduate Program (MA and PhD) in Communication of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. PhD in Business Administration, Post-Graduate in Anthropology at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her research focuses on anthropology of consumption and anthropology of communication, working mainly with low-income groups. She is coordinator of the research group Ncleo de Estudos em Comunicao de Massa e Consumo NEMACS (Studies in Mass Communication and Consumption), connected to CNPq (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development). She is co-author of the book Cultura e experincia miditica (Culture and Media Experience) (Ed. Mauad, 2014) and has published several essays and texts in various journals and collections.

Manuela Farinosi is Post-doctoral Researcher in Sociology of Communication in the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage at the University of Udine, Italy.

Troels Fibk Bertel is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Roskilde University. His work centres on the use and social consequences of media and communication in everyday life and his research interests include mobile media and communication, domestication theory and everyday civic engagement of vulnerable groups in social media.

Miguel Angel Casado del Ro is Lecturer at the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the University of the Basque Country. His research interests include cultural industry economics, public media systems and children and new media. He is a member of the European research network funded by the European Commission EU Kids Online.