1st Edition
Smartphone Communities Participation, Resistance, Mediation
By Anne Ganzert
Copyright 2027
312 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
Smartphone Communities places the smartphone - our most personal and ubiquitous medium - at the centre of an in-depth exploration of contemporary community formation. The book ground-breaking contribution lies in theorizing the smartphone not merely as a device, but as a dynamic social infrastructure through which communities are continuously assembled, negotiated, and contested.... Read more
Table of Contents
Introduction: Smartphone Participation in Formation
Smartphone Practices, Formations, and Communities
Participation, Resistance, and Smartphone Mediation
Tracking: Datafied Selves, Shared Metrics, and Emergent Collectives
Storytelling: Narratives, Visibility, and Situated Participation
Gaming: Mobility, Play, and Deferred Community
Dating: Intimacy, Proximity, and Relational Assemblages
Debating: Political Expression, Affective Publics, and Contested Participation
Protesting: Mobilisation, Witnessing, and Resistance-in-Motion
Conclusion: Smartphone Communities in Motion
