Smartphone Communication Interactions In The App Ecosystem
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Smartphone Communication
This book offers a unique model for understanding the cognitive underpinnings, interactions and discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphones in everyday app-mediated communication, from text messages and GIFs to images, video and social media apps. Adopting a cyberpragmatics framework, grounded in cognitive pragmatics and relevance theory, it gives attention to how both the particular interfaces of different apps and users’ personal attributes influence the contexts and uses of smartphone communication. The communication of emotions – in addition to primarily linguistic content – is foregrounded as an essential element of the kinds of ever-present paralinguistic and phatic communication that characterises our exchange of memes, GIFs, "likes," and image- and video-based content. Insights from related disciplines such as media studies and sociology are incorporated as the author unpacks the timeliest questions of our digitally mediated age. Aimed primarily at scholars and graduate students of communication, linguistics, pragmatics, media studies, and sociology of mass media, Smartphone Communication traffics in topics that will likewise engage upper-level undergraduate students.
Smartphone Communication and Society
Author: Baalaaditya Mishra
language: en
Publisher: Educohack Press
Release Date: 2025-01-03
"Smartphone Communication and Society" delves into the intricate and fascinating world of wireless and mobile technologies. In recent years, we've all experienced the excitement and frustration of mobile technology, particularly with the rise of third-generation mobile phone systems coinciding with the dotcom crash, once heralded as bringing the Internet to our phones. It's important to remember that all technologies need time to mature. Despite initial setbacks, mobile communication systems have seen massive growth, increased societal mobility, and global market deregulation. While traditional communication relied on fixed networks, mobility presents new challenges and innovative solutions. In many countries, mobile communication is the only option due to insufficient fixed communication infrastructure, leading to over a billion mobile phone users. The demand for well-educated communication engineers familiar with the latest developments in mobile communication continues to grow. As new systems are developed, more devices will merge functionalities, integrating traditional voice and data transmission with Internet applications. This convergence includes radios, personal digital assistants (PDAs), laptops, and mobile phones, all based on Internet technologies. This book provides an overview of mobile communications with a focus on digital data transfer. It highlights common characteristics of various technical solutions, integrating well-known fixed-network services into networks supporting mobility and wireless access. For readers wanting to explore specific topics in-depth, numerous references to research publications and related websites are included. Ideal for teachers and students in courses on data communication or computer networking, this book can also complement general courses on fixed or high-speed networks.
The Discursive Construction of Place in the Digital Age
This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the digital age and the increasing hybridisation of physical and virtual worlds. The volume outlines a new conceptualisation of place in the time of smartphones, whose technological and social affordances evoke placemaking as a collaborative endeavour which allows users to create and maintain a sense of community around place as shareable or collective experience. Taken together, the chapters argue for a greater emphasis on the ways in which users employ discourse to manage this physical-virtual interface in digital interactions and in turn, produce “remixed” cultural practices that draw on diverse digital semiotic resources and reflect their everyday experiences of place and location. The book explores a wide range of topics and contexts which embody these dynamics, including livestreaming platforms, mourning in the digital age, e-service encounters, and Internet forums. While the overlay of physical and virtual information on location-based media is not a new phenomenon, this volume argues that, in the face of its increasing pervasiveness, we can better understand its unfolding and future directions for research by accounting for the significance of place in today’s interactions. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in discourse analysis, digital communication, pragmatics, and media studies.