The Routledge Handbook of Mobile Socialities

This is a state-of-the-art survey of an emerging area of study in media, communication and cultural studies, mobility studies and mobile communications.

’Mobile socialities’ demarcates a new area of research that captures people’s various and contrary experiences of media in relation to their mobilities and socialities. The chapters in this volume are written by a range of international scholars offering a comprehensive overview and source of inspiration for a diverse range of topics on the contingent practices and finite resources of people and media on the move. The book demonstrates through empirical and theoretical research how mobile socialities is a generative concept for thinking through power, identity and the contexts of media in public and mediated spaces, work and everyday life, addressing a spectrum of mobile socialities and lived politics. The research and various cases make visible previously hidden, or obscured, social practices and allow us to rethink the meanings of mobility, digital media or the home in these examples of people living within the centre and peripheries of society.

The Handbook establishes mobile socialities as a new area of academic enquiry, ideal for advanced undergraduate students and scholars across the disciplines of media, communication and cultural studies, anthropology, cultural geography and sociology.

Annette Hill is a Professor of Media and Communication at Lund University and Visiting Professor at King’s College London. Her research focuses on audiences and popular culture, with interests in media engagement, everyday life, genres, production studies and cultures of viewing. She is the author of eight books, and many articles and book chapters which address varieties of engagement with reality television, news and documentary, television drama, entertainment formats, live events and sports entertainment, film violence and media ethics.

Maren Hartmann is professor for communication and media sociology at the University of the Arts in Berlin and a member of the Academia Europaea. Her research focuses on media appropriation in everyday life, but also on cyberculture, the urban, mobile media and mobilities. She recently finished a research project on time and (mobile) media and is now conducting one on homelessness and media use (DFG, 2019-2022). Her most recent book is the edited collection on Mediated Time (2019, Palgrave).

Magnus Andersson is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University. His research is within the field of media and cultural studies with a particular interest in questions related to mediation, media practices and spatial practices in the context of everyday life. He has conducted research projects on transnational migration, digitalization of work life and within rural media studies.