Creating with Mobile Media

Berry, Marsha

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“…In this context, we recognise that practices that may seem mundane to us, become crucial for people such as migrant adolescents, who need to reconstitute their identities in a strange space. As Berry (2017, p. 47) points out, a selfie offers boundless possibilities, covering a range of different functions and intentions, such as making contact, showing off, self-affirmation, self-documentation, self-invention, and reinvention. As we will see, for these young people, as compared to adolescents from the local population, taking a selfie and then sharing it on Instagram takes on a new significance.…”

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“…In the city, too, they move around to “pick up free Wi-Fi,” as they say, or to connect to the Internet from the computers available in civic centres (Mendoza Pérez & Morgade Salgado, 2019). In such places, which offer free Wi-Fi, they meet up with friends and fellow citizens who also need to communicate with family and friends back home, and they often take group selfies as a routine element of socialising (Berry, 2017, p. 47). Migrant adolescents, along with young locals, are increasingly present in certain spaces such as town squares, cultural centres, libraries, and shopping centres, where they can “pick up free Wi-Fi.” These urban spaces that teenagers seek out are reminiscent of those early cyber cafés where they would meet to chat, play, watch videos, flirt, and joke, but in this case, it is vital that they are cost-free (Gil, Feliu, Rivero, & Gil, 2003).…”

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Mobility and the mobile: A study of adolescent migrants and their use of the mobile phone

Pérez

Salgado

2019

Mobile Media & Communication

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In this article, we explore the day-to-day importance of digital media, specifically the use of mobile phones in the lives of migrant minors—also known as unaccompanied foreign minors—in juvenile residential centres. For this study, we employed a general ethnographic methodology and, in particular, a workshop based on different artistic techniques that encouraged the young people involved to become active participants, committed from the start in the generation of the material to be used for the analysis of their daily practices. This approach emerged from the recognition of the importance for these young people to feel included and connected. Migrant adolescents take refuge in their mobile devices to participate in the youth microculture, both locally and globally. In addition, they are able to access different social networks that allow them to play out the personas they wish to adopt. Finally, we recognise the importance of digital media in allowing them to maintain close and affective relationships with their relatives, fellow citizens, and communities in their country of origin.

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Mobility and the mobile: A study of adolescent migrants and their use of the mobile phone

Pérez

Salgado

2019

Mobile Media & Communication

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“…The professional selfie in Pune acts as a counterpoint to earlier anthropologies of social media in which the selfie has been largely understood as a form of self-expression (Berry 2017;Keep 2014;Murray 2015;Rettberg 2014;Shipley 2015). In Pune, the image that most commonly appears on young men's Facebook profiles does not adhere to the traditional selfie's candid presentation, its display of the intimate world, or its mechanics of selfphotography.…”

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The selfie speaks a thousand words

Advani

2020

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

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While the selfie has come to symbolize notions of selfhood in the age of social media, the photograph that has become a visual trope across the Facebook accounts of lower-middle-class young men in the western Indian city of Pune offers a different reading of online selfhood. In this article, I discuss the creation of a localized selfie-the "professional selfie"-in which young men stage their masculinity by engaging in a mimetic economy of exchanging characteristics with film heroes. In contrast to Susan Sontag's (2003) theorization of the intimate photograph, the professional selfie is devoid of interiority. Far from unaware of the camera in the manner described by Sontag, young men in Pune utilize the services of photographers to capture them at a distance and conceal their surroundings, thereby creating relations of social distance and distinction with their peers on Facebook.

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“…Humans are highly adaptable to digital technology and can interact in many ways. Witness the wideranging types of content available on smartphones and tablets, often enabling creativity not previously possible (Berry 2017). David Hockney has used painting apps productively in his art practice, always willing to adapt to new approaches, for example using both the Apple iPhone and iPad (https://www.hockney.com/works/digital).…”

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Digitality: A reality check

Bowen

Giannini

2021

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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The condition of digitality and the associated concept of digitalism are increasingly important today. Our ever-more digital societal context means that many are experiencing a digital life where reality and digitality blur in their distinction in many people's digital lives. This paper considers these aspects with respect to digital culture, especially in the context of heritage and museums. In particular, we look at developments since a previous 2014 paper by the authors and speculate on possible future developments. We focus especially on the reality check provided by the Covid-19 pandemic, that has accelerated societal digitality.

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Creating with Mobile Media

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Mobility and the mobile: A study of adolescent migrants and their use of the mobile phone

Mobility and the mobile: A study of adolescent migrants and their use of the mobile phone

The selfie speaks a thousand words

Digitality: A reality check

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