Mobility, Communication, and Place: Navigating the Landscapes of Suburban U.S. Teens

Cope, Meghan; Lee, Brian H. Y.

doi:10.4324/9781315266336-8

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“…Previous literature suggests that a range of varied and interrelated projects dominate young people's mobile phone usage (e.g., Ling 2004;Cope and Lee 2016). To support, maintain, and advance social contact with friends is the most important of those projects.…”

Section: Literature Review: the Meaning And Function Of Mobile Media Among Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Absent Friends? Smartphones, Mediated Presence, and the Recoupling of Online Social Contact in Everyday Life

Thulin

Vilhelmson

Schwanen

2019

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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This article contributes to the geographical understanding of how mobile online presence enabled by smartphones transforms human spatial practices; that is, people's everyday routines and experiences in time and space. Contrasting a mainstream discourse concentrating on the autonomy and flexibility of ubiquitous (anywhere, anytime) use of social media, we examine new and mounting constraints on user agency. Building on timegeographic theory, we advance novel insights into the virtualities of young people's social lives and how they are materialized in the physical world. Critically, we rework the classical time-geographic conceptions of bundling, constraints, rhythms, and pockets of local order; draw on the emerging literature on smartphone usage; and use illustrative examples from interviews with young people. We suggest a set of general and profound changes in everyday life and sociality due to pervasive and perpetual mediated presence of friends: (1) the emergence of new coupling constraints and the recoupling of social interaction; (2) the changing rhythms of social interaction due to mediated bundles of sociality becoming more frequent and insistent; (3) the shifting nature of the streaming background of online contacts, which are becoming more active, intervening in, and intruding on ongoing foreground activities of everyday life; and (4) the reordering of foreground activity as well as colocated and mediated presences, centering on processes of interweaving, congestion and ambivalence, and colocated absence.

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Section: Literature Review: the Meaning And Function Of Mobile Media Among Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Absent Friends? Smartphones, Mediated Presence, and the Recoupling of Online Social Contact in Everyday Life

Thulin

Vilhelmson

Schwanen

2019

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…Future studies should also assess anxiety specific to driving and compare how driving‐specific anxiety and GAD influence the trajectory of driving avoidance in adolescents, as well as re‐examining the possible role of depression, perhaps including other measures of depression. In teens, it may be that depression is not a predecessor to, but is more commonly a product of, driving avoidance due to resulting limitations in social interaction (Challands et al, 2017) and independence (Cope & Lee, 2016). Additionally, this lack of mobility could limit employment and educational opportunities (Williams, 2017), delaying transition to adulthood.…”

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Longitudinal associations between internalizing symptoms and driving avoidance in newly licensed adolescents

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Background Extensive literature assesses risky adolescent driving, but nothing examines what makes teens avoid driving. Many assume teenagers are eager to drive, but evidence suggests internalizing symptoms lead some to avoid driving. Aims This study tested whether depressive and anxious symptomology predicted longitudinal driving avoidance in novice teen drivers. Materials and Methods N = 56 16‐year‐olds (52% female; 48% Black/African American) completed three observations over 6 months. At Time 1, participants reported depressive (Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression 10‐item Scale) and anxious (Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7‐item Scale) symptomologies, and driving avoidance (Driving Habits Questionnaire [DHQ]), repeating DHQ at Times 2 and 3. Multiple linear regression tested whether symptomologies predicted avoidance at licensure. Linear mixed models tested associations between symptomologies and avoidance over time. Results High anxiety predicted greater avoidance at baseline and over 6 months. Depressive symptoms did not predict avoidance. Discussion Findings warrant an assessment of anxious adolescents' barriers to driving and avoidance impacts on crash risk.

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“…As with other digital services (Grindr and OKCupid etcetera), there are “classes” of platforms in the (queer) digital cultures people are un/able to ascribe to (Cope & Lee, ). Therefore, whilst place matters in the design of said media, it is within and between places that their impacts are lived and felt.…”

Section: Changing Approaches: Network To Assemblagementioning

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Queer geographies of spatial media

Mearns

2019

Geography Compass

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Digital media scholarship is burgeoning. However, there remains a paucity of queer geographies accounting for hybridity and multi‐directionality of coexisting, variegated and embodied spaces produced through spatial media nor the technologies that enable these media (smartphones, tablet computers, and self‐tracking devices). Bringing together literatures on sexuality and the first and second iterations of the internet, this article extends debate about the uneven and paradoxical queer geographies of location‐aware applications (Tinder and Grindr) and other spatial media now often taken as “composite” of queer cultures globally. The article encourages those with interest in the interrelationships between sexualities and space to emphasise further the historical, cultural, and political specificities of the places in which these diverse media are designed, developed, and consumed. The purpose of doing so, I contend, is to deepen knowledge of heightened commercialisation whilst unravelling complex questions of data ownership, privacy and cultural norms that could exacerbate disparities in sexual citizenship.

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Mobility, Communication, and Place: Navigating the Landscapes of Suburban U.S. Teens

Cited by 9 publications

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Absent Friends? Smartphones, Mediated Presence, and the Recoupling of Online Social Contact in Everyday Life

Absent Friends? Smartphones, Mediated Presence, and the Recoupling of Online Social Contact in Everyday Life

Longitudinal associations between internalizing symptoms and driving avoidance in newly licensed adolescents

Queer geographies of spatial media

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