🗺️🤖 Rowan Wilken & Julian Thomas explore how AI is reshaping mobile maps and navigation. 💡 AI is changing how maps are used and what they do - reorganizing mobility, redistributing decision-making, and raising new social, political, and economic questions. 🔗 #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/2050...

📱⏳ Mobile Media as Governed Routine New research by Wahid bin Ahsan, Md. Asraful Alam Prottoy & Md. Nadim Mahmud Nayem explores how adolescents in Bangladesh navigate mobile media through everyday routines, revealing six mechanisms behind everyday decision-making. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

⚠️ It's the last month to submit extended abstracts for our (w Mora Matassi + @trinesy.bsky.social) special issue on mobile disconnection in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social (due 31 July). CfP below: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

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Morgan Quinn Ross@mqrmobile.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Two more months! ⏳ Feel free to translate any mobile disconnection energy from #ICA26 into a submission 🙂

📚📱 New Book Review: Armando Nhantumbo reviews "Children and Young People’s Digital Lifeworlds: Domestication, Mediation, and Agency " by Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

📚📱 New Book Review: Brooke Bromberg reviews "Needy Media: How Tech Gets Personal" by stephenmonteiro.bsky.social. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

Wonderful conversations, valued colleagues, and exciting plans ahead for MMC at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Huge thanks to everyone who joined our editorial board meeting. 🙏 And congratulations to our Senior Editor @asouzaesilva.bsky.social for being recognized as an ICA Fellow - we couldn't be prouder! 🎉

What happens when women are asked to reimagine life with a smartphone? 📱✨ Through a creative inquiry with 20 women (18–29) in Germany & Norway, @vic-kra.bsky.social identifies three utopian themes: 🧍‍♀️ Ideal self, 📱 ideal tech & 🌍 ideal society 🔗 #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🎉 New at @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social, led by Scott W. Campbell + w Rich Ling! 🪕 We consider how mobile AI could support the individual addressability of data and people (for better + worse) ✨ Thanks to @asouzaesilva.bsky.social + Yifan Xu! doi.org/10.1177/2050...

📲🤖 From people → data → agents New in our Special Issue on #MobileAI, Scott W. Campbell, mqrmobile.bsky.social‬ & Rich Ling trace the evolution of “individual addressability” in mobile communication. �� https://doi.org/10.1177/2050157926144848439

🗣️⚡ Speaking Back to the Divide - New in our Special Issue on #MobileAI In a new #OpenAccess article, Caroline Wamala Larsson examines voice-first AI in Zambia through the lens of feminist data justice. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

🎙️📱 Disability, Voice & Mobile AI - New in our Special Issue on #MobileAI 🤖 Kuansong Victor Zhuang & Gerard Goggin examine how disability is imagined and addressed in the development of mobile AI technologies. 🔗 #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/2050...

🤖📱 Special Issue on #MobileAI “What could the future look like for older adults and mobile AI?” 💡 Caitlin McGrane & Larissa Hjorth explore how people aged 65+ perceive, use, and imagine mobile AI in everyday life. 🔗 #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/2050...

More-than-human mobile media & communication? 🐋 New #OpenAccess article by Scott W. Campbell & Ragan Glover explores MMC through the lens of whales. 💡 A more-than-human perspective that lets us rethink mobility, media & communication 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

🎮📱 Mobile Playbour & Esports in 🇮🇩 Introducing the concept of mobile playbour, Haryo Pambuko Jiwandono highlights the creative, social, and emotional labor that drives monetization in mobile gaming – while revealing the opportunities and precarity of esports labor. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

Working with digital & comp tools? MMR is dedicated to short pieces introducing research tools for #mobilecomm research. 🛠️📱 🎯Goal: Transparency, reuse & recognition for the tools we build and use. Editor: dscheykopp.bsky.social 👉https://journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mobile_research_resources

📵📱 CfP — Special Issue: "Mobile Disconnection" Editors: @mqrmobile.bsky.social, Mora Matassi & @trinesy.bsky.social 📅 Abstracts due: July 31, 2026 🔗 Full CfP: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

Exciting news for Mobile Communication Division members attending the @icahdq.bsky.social Annual Conference in Cape Town in June! We are offering division swag. More reasons to come join us later this year at the #ICAMobile reception! #ICA2026

📱🧠 Mobile Media Decision-Making (MMDM) – New in our special issue on #MobileCommTheory Ragan Glover Glover introduces MMDM, a mid-range theory for understanding how mobile media inform, support, and sometimes replace decision-making in everyday life. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📚📱 New Book Review @ioansu.bsky.social reviews The Mobile Media Debate (eds. @tvpape.bsky.social & @vkarnowski.bsky.social, 2024). The volume challenges simplified claims about mobile media through thesis–antithesis–synthesis debates across individuals, groups, and spaces. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

🚨Pub alert! Jace Cabanes' and my latest article is out online first in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social! In this piece, we make a case for the value of non-West and global South theorizing for mobile media and communication scholarship using our concept of glocal intimacies as an example.

Glocal intimacies as non-West and global South theory-building for mobile media and communication - Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco, Jason Vincent A. Cabañes, 2026

Using the theory of glocal intimacies as an illustrative case, this article argues for the value of non-West and global South theorizing for mobile media and co...

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🤖📱 Managing Learning with Mobile AI New study: Shwadhin Sharma & Anita Khadka show how ChatGPT helps students in Nepal reduce cognitive load, lower anxiety, boost engagement, and support learning. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

🌍📱 Global intimacies & Mobile Comm Theorizing @luytioco.bsky.social and Jason Cabañes argue for non-Western and Global South theory-building in mobile media research. 💡 A must-read for scholars seeking inclusive, contextualized approaches to mobile communication. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

📱📞 Do mobile phone numbers have politics? In Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community, phone numbers are more than technical identifiers, they function as tools of surveillance, control, and symbolic boundary-making. New study by Tamar Ashuri, Malka Shacham & Dvora Vidmann 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

📚📱 New Book Review Shuai Li reviews "Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice" (2021) by Max Schleser, a comprehensive exploration of how smartphones have reshaped filmmaking, visual storytelling, and creative practice. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

📚📱 New Book Review Halima Lul Ali reviews "TikTok: Creativity and Culture in Short Video" by Kaye, Zeng & Wikström (2022), examining TikTok as a mobile-first platform shaping creativity, labor, and power. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...

👵📱👴 The full Special Issue “Mobile Communication and Later Life: From Theories to Empirical Frescoes”, including the editorial by @mireiafa.bsky.social & @sakaritaipale.bsky.social is now online! ✨📖 👉 Editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 👉 TOC: journals.sagepub.com/toc/mmca/14/...

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You asked, we listened: ✨Relaunching Mobile Research Resources in MMC✨ Why?🧐 Digital & comp tools are central to our field, but scattered. MRR gives them a home - supporting transparency, reuse & recognition.🏠🤝 ✍🏻 Editor @dscheykopp.bsky.social Learn more here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

📱🖥️ One Platform, Different Terminals 💡Zheng Yang, Yuanting Huang, Mingyue Zhu, & Xi Lu show that the same platform produces different political engagement depending on the terminal used (📱 WeChat Mini Program, 📲 app, 🌐 mobile web, 🖥️ PC). 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Are older adults really “tech-reluctant,” or is that just a stereotype? 🤔📱 Focus groups by @nicoledalmer.bsky.social, Stephen Katz, @socbarb.bsky.social & Kirsten L. Ellison show that older adults are capable, creative, and tech-savvy on their own terms.💡 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ever found yourself scrolling on your phone in the middle of a conversation?📱👥Curious about why this happens, @annastockmann.bsky.social and I explored the situational drivers of co-present phone use in our new🔓#OpenAccess paper, just published in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social🎉 (1/6)