This article seeks to amplify discursive constructions of social connection through
technology with an examination of the proposed and presumed intimacies of the Tinder app …

Full article: Introduction to the Special Issue: “Transnational Family Care ‘On Hold’?
Intergenerational Relationships and Obligations in the Context of Immobility Regimes” Skip to …

Communication and media technologies are, as Marshall McLuhan (1964) observed,
extensions of the body: the car extends the feet, the hammer the hand. Technologies also …

Spatial metaphors have long been part of the way we make sense of media. From early
conceptualizations of the internet, we have come to understand digital media as spaces that …

Organising, performing, and experiencing festive family rituals sustain relationships among
family members. However, in recent times, high levels of human migration alongside the …

Leading mobilities theorist Mimi Sheller offers an up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the
complex mobility disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath in this timely …

This unique book considers COVID-19 as one pandemic amongst many, forming an
episodic era of ebbing and flowing crises: the Virocene. Investigating COVID-19 in the …

Taking photographs has been an integral part of family life. However, recent technological
innovations in mobile communication have paved the way for diverse use of photographic …

This paper examines the diversification of pastoralist herding practices in the context of
socio-climatic change and the ways in which mobile technologies shape this diversification …

Media industries recognise the extent to which the potential audiences for their products are
now made up significantly of “roamers,” people finding diverse routes through the options …