2Mobile media artifacts
Genealogies, haptic visualities, and speculative gestures
Much has been written about the practices and political economy of mobile media. From the ethnographic analysis of cultural practice (Horst & Miller, 2006) to the industry political economy (Donner, 2008), studies on mobile media have grown over the past decade into its own scholarly field globally. And yet in this burgeoning field, the role of mobile media as artifacts that are part of broader symbolic and material conditions encompassing materiality and infrastructures has received less attention. In this chapter, we draw on various interdisciplinary studies of mobile media from game studies, mobile communication, and digital ...
