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Peer-reviewed journal for international, interdisciplinary academic research on the dynamic field of mobile media and communication.

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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
⚡📱 Speed News, Smartphones & GenAI – New in our #MobileAI special issue: @SubinPaul on how rural "news informers" in India use ChatGPT on low-cost Android phones to condense stories into punchy lines. The result: a deeper "ruralization" of Hindi news. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🌱📱 Greening Mobile AI? New in our #MobileAI special issue: Gerard Goggin asks what happens to the environment as mobile media and AI become entangled. Decades of "green phone" effort, little progress – and AI phones, wearables & cloud add new burdens. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Greening Mobile AI? - Gerard Goggin, 2026
Mobile AI is very much a work in progress. No better time at the outset, then, to consider its environmental implications. As mobile media and communication are...
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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Excited to dig into the @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social special issue on theory! journals.sagepub.com/toc/mmca/14/3
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📱💡 Our Special Issue on Mobile Communication Theory is out, featuring an introduction by our guest editors @larawolfers.bsky.social, Scott W. Campbell & Rich Ling! 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/toc/mmca/14/3
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📱🌾 New OnlineFirst article on mobile inequality 💡 Jingke Lin & Jianjie Tao use Heeks' "adverse digital incorporation" framework and ethnographic fieldwork in rural China to reframe the third-level digital divide as unequal value extraction within the mobile system. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📳🔕 Silent yet Not Deserted New OnlineFirst article by lisemarienassen.bsky.social & kathrinkarsay.bsky.social explores ringer modes, smartphone use, and digital stress. 💡 The key may not be which mode we choose, but the motivations behind our choices. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🗺️🤖 Rowan Wilken & Julian Thomas explore how AI is reshaping mobile maps and navigation. 💡 AI is changing how maps are used and what they do - reorganizing mobility, redistributing decision-making, and raising new social, political, and economic questions. 🔗 #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
📱⏳ Mobile Media as Governed Routine New research by Wahid bin Ahsan, Md. Asraful Alam Prottoy & Md. Nadim Mahmud Nayem explores how adolescents in Bangladesh navigate mobile media through everyday routines, revealing six mechanisms behind everyday decision-making. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
⚠️ It's the last month to submit extended abstracts for our (w Mora Matassi + @trinesy.bsky.social) special issue on mobile disconnection in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social (due 31 July). CfP below: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
📚📱 New Book Review: Armando Nhantumbo reviews "Children and Young People’s Digital Lifeworlds: Domestication, Mediation, and Agency " by Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
📚📱 New Book Review: Brooke Bromberg reviews "Needy Media: How Tech Gets Personal" by stephenmonteiro.bsky.social. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Wonderful conversations, valued colleagues, and exciting plans ahead for MMC at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Huge thanks to everyone who joined our editorial board meeting. 🙏 And congratulations to our Senior Editor @asouzaesilva.bsky.social for being recognized as an ICA Fellow - we couldn't be prouder! 🎉
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
What happens when women are asked to reimagine life with a smartphone? 📱✨ Through a creative inquiry with 20 women (18–29) in Germany & Norway, @vic-kra.bsky.social identifies three utopian themes: 🧍‍♀️ Ideal self, 📱 ideal tech & 🌍 ideal society 🔗 #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🎉 New at @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social, led by Scott W. Campbell + w Rich Ling! 🪕 We consider how mobile AI could support the individual addressability of data and people (for better + worse) ✨ Thanks to @asouzaesilva.bsky.social + Yifan Xu! doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
📲🤖 From people → data → agents New in our Special Issue on #MobileAI, Scott W. Campbell, mqrmobile.bsky.social‬ & Rich Ling trace the evolution of “individual addressability” in mobile communication. �� doi.org/10.1177/2050157926144848439
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🗣️⚡ Speaking Back to the Divide - New in our Special Issue on #MobileAI In a new #OpenAccess article, Caroline Wamala Larsson examines voice-first AI in Zambia through the lens of feminist data justice. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🎙️📱 Disability, Voice & Mobile AI - New in our Special Issue on #MobileAI 🤖 Kuansong Victor Zhuang & Gerard Goggin examine how disability is imagined and addressed in the development of mobile AI technologies. 🔗 #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🤖📱 Special Issue on #MobileAI “What could the future look like for older adults and mobile AI?” 💡 Caitlin McGrane & Larissa Hjorth explore how people aged 65+ perceive, use, and imagine mobile AI in everyday life. 🔗 #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
More-than-human mobile media & communication? 🐋 New #OpenAccess article by Scott W. Campbell & Ragan Glover explores MMC through the lens of whales. 💡 A more-than-human perspective that lets us rethink mobility, media & communication 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🎮📱 Mobile Playbour & Esports in 🇮🇩 Introducing the concept of mobile playbour, Haryo Pambuko Jiwandono highlights the creative, social, and emotional labor that drives monetization in mobile gaming – while revealing the opportunities and precarity of esports labor. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Working with digital & comp tools? MMR is dedicated to short pieces introducing research tools for #mobilecomm research. 🛠️📱 🎯Goal: Transparency, reuse & recognition for the tools we build and use. Editor: dscheykopp.bsky.social 👉https://journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mobile_research_resources
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
📵📱 CfP — Special Issue: "Mobile Disconnection" Editors: @mqrmobile.bsky.social, Mora Matassi & @trinesy.bsky.social 📅 Abstracts due: July 31, 2026 🔗 Full CfP: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...
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ICA Mobile Communication @icamobile.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Exciting news for Mobile Communication Division members attending the @icahdq.bsky.social Annual Conference in Cape Town in June! We are offering division swag. More reasons to come join us later this year at the #ICAMobile reception! #ICA2026
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
📱🧠 Mobile Media Decision-Making (MMDM) – New in our special issue on #MobileCommTheory Ragan Glover Glover introduces MMDM, a mid-range theory for understanding how mobile media inform, support, and sometimes replace decision-making in everyday life. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
📚📱 New Book Review @ioansu.bsky.social reviews The Mobile Media Debate (eds. @tvpape.bsky.social & @vkarnowski.bsky.social, 2024). The volume challenges simplified claims about mobile media through thesis–antithesis–synthesis debates across individuals, groups, and spaces. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Lia Uy-Tioco @luytioco.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🚨Pub alert! Jace Cabanes' and my latest article is out online first in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social! In this piece, we make a case for the value of non-West and global South theorizing for mobile media and communication scholarship using our concept of glocal intimacies as an example.
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Glocal intimacies as non-West and global South theory-building for mobile media and communication - Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco, Jason Vincent A. Cabañes, 2026
Using the theory of glocal intimacies as an illustrative case, this article argues for the value of non-West and global South theorizing for mobile media and co...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🤖📱 Managing Learning with Mobile AI New study: Shwadhin Sharma & Anita Khadka show how ChatGPT helps students in Nepal reduce cognitive load, lower anxiety, boost engagement, and support learning. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🌍📱 Global intimacies & Mobile Comm Theorizing @luytioco.bsky.social and Jason Cabañes argue for non-Western and Global South theory-building in mobile media research. 💡 A must-read for scholars seeking inclusive, contextualized approaches to mobile communication. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
📱📞 Do mobile phone numbers have politics? In Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community, phone numbers are more than technical identifiers, they function as tools of surveillance, control, and symbolic boundary-making. New study by Tamar Ashuri, Malka Shacham & Dvora Vidmann 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
📚📱 New Book Review Shuai Li reviews "Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice" (2021) by Max Schleser, a comprehensive exploration of how smartphones have reshaped filmmaking, visual storytelling, and creative practice. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
📚📱 New Book Review Halima Lul Ali reviews "TikTok: Creativity and Culture in Short Video" by Kaye, Zeng & Wikström (2022), examining TikTok as a mobile-first platform shaping creativity, labor, and power. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
👵📱👴 The full Special Issue “Mobile Communication and Later Life: From Theories to Empirical Frescoes”, including the editorial by @mireiafa.bsky.social & @sakaritaipale.bsky.social is now online! ✨📖 👉 Editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 👉 TOC: journals.sagepub.com/toc/mmca/14/...
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Mobile Media & Communication - Volume 14, Number 1
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
You asked, we listened: ✨Relaunching Mobile Research Resources in MMC✨ Why?🧐 Digital & comp tools are central to our field, but scattered. MRR gives them a home - supporting transparency, reuse & recognition.🏠🤝 ✍🏻 Editor @dscheykopp.bsky.social Learn more here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
📱🖥️ One Platform, Different Terminals 💡Zheng Yang, Yuanting Huang, Mingyue Zhu, & Xi Lu show that the same platform produces different political engagement depending on the terminal used (📱 WeChat Mini Program, 📲 app, 🌐 mobile web, 🖥️ PC). 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Are older adults really “tech-reluctant,” or is that just a stereotype? 🤔📱 Focus groups by @nicoledalmer.bsky.social, Stephen Katz, @socbarb.bsky.social & Kirsten L. Ellison show that older adults are capable, creative, and tech-savvy on their own terms.💡 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Anisha Arenz @anishaarenz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Ever found yourself scrolling on your phone in the middle of a conversation?📱👥Curious about why this happens, @annastockmann.bsky.social and I explored the situational drivers of co-present phone use in our new🔓#OpenAccess paper, just published in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social🎉 (1/6)
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
#OpenAccess 📱👥 @anishaarenz.bsky.social & @annastockmann.bsky.social examine what triggers phone use while with others. 💡 Across 829 interactions, co-present use rose when others were on their phones or notifications appeared. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Wei Hong, Ru-De Liu, Jia Wang, Zien Ding & Jiabin Liu track how nomophobia, anxiety when out of phone contact, shapes youth wellbeing over time. 📱😰 Findings: Nomophobia → self-control ⬇️ → academic achievement 📉 Nomophobia → self-esteem ⬇️ → mental health 💔 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
📞🎮 Sidetalking: Nokia’s playful design gone sideways Heikki Jungman, @t0mm7.bsky.social, Niklas Nylund & @sotamaa.bsky.social revisit the N-Gage’s sideways-calling feature. 💡 The article shows how cultural misalignment, not tech flaws, doomed it. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New #openaccess article in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social "Sidetalking: Domesticating Nokia's playful designed identity" On the Nokia mobile gaming platform: the Nokia NGage, released 2003. A THREAD. Download: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #gamestudies #platformstudies
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
📱🙈 New study by So Jin Lee, Jaeyeon Bang, Jiyeon Park, Yejoo Lee, Eunseo Kim, Suyeon Kim & Taeyeon Kim examines how individuals respond to phubbing. 💔 Key finding: Being phubbed threatens social needs, lowers mood, and reduces intention to interact. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
📹🏖️ “Vlogging my lives of two homes” Yongjian Li & Tonny Krijnen show how Chinese older seasonal migrants use Douyin (TikTok) to create hybrid digital–physical spaces and reimagine mobility. 💡 Their vlogs challenge ageist views with vitality and agency. 🔓 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📱🏡 Sarah Wagner explores how long-term care residents in 🇨🇦 engage with - and sometimes resist - mobile tech. 💡 The study reframes digital inclusion through relational digital agency, highlighting choice, limits, and meaning in connection and disconnection. 🔓 #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
📱⚖️ New study: kevinkoban.bsky.social explores how 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇩 youth manage smartphone checking, digital stress & disconnection strategies. 📈 Key finding: For U.S. youth, reflective disengagement eases habitual checking stress 🧘- but can heighten it for compulsive checkers. 😣 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
📰📱 When do young people read news on their phones? A new study by Morley Weston, Daniel Vogler, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Pascal Jürgens & Mark Eisenegger finds: ⏰ Peaks on voting day 📉 Dips on weekends 📱 Spikes at first unlock 🔗 Boosts by social apps #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Does your 📱 make you feel rushed?⏳ kvgaever.bsky.social, daviddeseg.bsky.social, smurphee.bsky.social‬ & Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele show how smartphone email, chat, work app & social media use shape time pressure and task juggling. �� journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
📲📰 Can mobile news alerts engage news avoiders? In their new study, @renbarau.bsky.social, Rory Mulcahy & Aimee Riedel show how positively framed alerts can spark curiosity and boost engagement - even for those who usually avoid the news. 🔓 #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Pushing Past News Avoidance: Implications of Mobile Alerts on News Engagement Intentions - Renee Barnes, Rory Mulcahy, Aimee Riedel, 2025
The ubiquitous presence of smartphones has led to their prominence as a dominant source of news for a vast majority of people. In this context, the impact of mo...
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
📱👵🏽 How do older adults in rural Punjab engage with—or resist—mobile media? Debjani Chakraborty & Chhavi Garg explore how older users navigate tech amid linguistic, social, and generational barriers—revealing how age, family, and culture shape digital life. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
📲 Always feel pressured to be online? This study by @sarahlutz.bsky.social, Frank Schneider, Annabell Halfmann, ‪@annafreytag.bsky.social & Dorothée Hefner shows how constant availability on messenger apps affects well-being. 🧘‍♀️ 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Mobile Media & Communication @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
📱🏠 How did smartphones shape the lives of China’s left-behind children during COVID-19? Pei Shao’s study shows how families governed kids’ phone use, reshaping household space, family roles, and parenting under state oversight. Read it here 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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