The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media

This second edition of the groundbreaking Routledge Companion to Mobile Media brings together newly commissioned essays and cutting-edge research alongside updated essays from the original volume to create a definitive guide to mobile communication studies.

The collection, which brings together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, sets out to contextualise the increasingly convergent areas surrounding social, geosocial, and mobile media discourses. Essays provide comprehensive and interdisciplinary models and approaches for analysing mobile media and draw upon a wide range of global case studies, from China, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America to Europe, the UK and the US. This new edition also covers the many changes in the field over the last decade: from dating apps, AI, mobile phones, travel, games and digital transactions through drones, blockchain, microbilities, virtual reality, touch and haptic technology, to the role of mobile media in health, climate change, mobiles and electrification, digital migrant cultures, arts, creativity and politics--and beyond.

This second edition remains an essential resource for upper-level students, researchers and scholars interested in mobile media research.

Gerard Goggin is Distinguished Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. Goggin is author or editor of several books on mobile media and communication including: the trilogy Cell Phone Culture (2006), Global Mobile Media (2011) and Apps (2021); with Larissa Hjorth, Mobile Technologies (2008) and Mobile Media Methods (2024); with Rowan Wilken, Mobile Technology and Place (2012), Locative Media (2015), and Location Technologies in International Context (2019; also with Heather Horst). He also has longstanding interest in disability, media, and digital technology and rights, with key books including Disability and theMedia (2015) and the co-edited Routledge Companion to Disability and Media (2020).

Larissa Hjorth is a digital ethnographer, socially-engaged artist and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT University. Hjorth has two decades experience leading mobile media projects to explore innovative methods around intergenerational connection, intimacy, games, play, loss and death in the Asia-Pacific region (Japan, South Korea, China and Australia). Hjorth’s Future Fellowship explores mobile media mourning rituals. She is the author of Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (2009), Games and Gaming (2010), Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia-Pacific (with Michael Arnold, 2013), and Understanding Social Media (with Sam Hinton, 2013).