Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Despite having been extremely popular in the 1980s and 1990s, the pager has received scant academic attention. Drawing on speed theory, this article provides a discourse analysis of popular representatio…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Since Tinder’s worldwide popularity, location-based dating apps have become widespread. The existing literature mainly focuses on a single app in European and US contexts and pays little attention to oth…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Phubbing (i.e., snubbing someone in face-to-face interactions by focusing on one’s phone instead of those present) has increased enormously in recent years and has become a widespread usage phenomenon th…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Phubbing (i.e., snubbing someone in face-to-face interactions by focusing on one’s phone instead of those present) has increased enormously in recent years and has become a widespread usage phenomenon th…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. This article considers the roles that smartphones play as young people living in low-income communities navigate everyday activities, including those of online civic engagement. Drawing on ethnographic d…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. This contribution sheds light on how people experiencing homelessness in Germany make sense of an app designed with them in mind and whether using it would be of benefit to them. However, it must be ackn…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. The paper deals with the issue of homelessness in the context of the application of location-based services in urban spaces. Using a walkthrough method, the article compares two applications that allow c…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. In response to the growing public concern about digital well-being, many tools have been developed for individuals to reduce their screen time. An understudied but promising self-nudge intervention is tu…
Mobile Media &Communication, Ahead of Print. Little is known about women experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH) in the UK, and even less about their use of mobile phones. MEH describes a subset of homeless people with multiple and compl…