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Smartphone Cultures (Hardcover)
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Smartphone Cultures (Hardcover)
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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 children's smartphone use, children's
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 smartphone's
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.
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