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1. The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media

   Edited by Gerard Goggin, Larissa Hjorth

   Series: Routledge Companions

   The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media seeks to be the definitive publication for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of mobile media. The collection, which gathers together original articles written by an international roster of...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Mobile Media Practices, Presence and Politics

   The Challenge of Being Seamlessly Mobile

   Edited by Kathleen M. Cumiskey, Larissa Hjorth

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   As an example of convergence, the mobile phone—especially in the form of smartphone—is now ushering in new promises of seamlessness between engagement with technology and everyday common experiences. This seamlessness is not only about how one transitions between the worlds of the device and the...

   To Be Published June 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Online@AsiaPacific

   Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia–Pacific

   By Larissa Hjorth, Michael Arnold

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia.com

   Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia–Pacific region...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
4. Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific

   Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Dean Chan

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   This collection explores the relationship between digital gaming and its cultural context by focusing on the burgeoning Asia-Pacific region. Encompassing key locations for global gaming production and consumption such as Japan, China, and South Korea, as well as increasingly significant sites...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Studying Mobile Media

   Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone

   Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess, Ingrid Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book ...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
6. Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific

   Gender and The Art of Being Mobile

   By Larissa Hjorth

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia.com

   This century has been marked by the rapid and divergent uptake of mobile telephony throughout the world. The mobile phone has become a poignant symbol for postmodernity and the attendant modes of global mobility and immobility. Most notably, the icon of the mobile phone is most palpable in the...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
7. Mobile Technologies

   From Telecommunications to Media

   Edited by Gerard Goggin, Larissa Hjorth

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   In light of emerging forms of software, interfaces, cultures of uses, and media practices associated with mobile media, this collection investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. Specifically, contributors...

   Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge