1st Edition

Mobile Messaging and Resourcefulness A Post-digital Ethnography

By Caroline Tagg, Agnieszka Lyons Copyright 2022
144 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book advocates a new post-digital linguistic ethnography approach to unpacking mobile communication and enabling a more informed understanding of individuals’ communicative practices in cities today. Drawing on data from a group of ordinary working people, multilingual individuals from superdiverse cities across the United Kingdom, the volume brings observations from this data together to... Read more
  1. Introduction
  2. Post-digital ethnography and the networked individual
  3. Mobile resourcefulness
  4. Polymedia repertoires
  5. Sharing in mobile conversations
  6. Conclusion

Biography

Caroline Tagg is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK. Her research into language and digital technologies rests on the understanding that digital communication practices are deeply embedded into individuals’ wider lives. She is author of Taking Offence on Social Media (with Philip Seargeant and Amy Aisha Brown, 2017) and Message and Medium (with Mel Evans, 2020).

Agnieszka Lyons is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research employs multimodal and mediated discourse analytic as well as ethnographic approaches to explore the discursive construction of embodied identity in polycentric migrant environments. She has published on issues related to migration and mobility in Language in Society, Journal of Pragmatics and Social Semiotics, among others.