Mobile social media: The challenges and opportunities continue

L Humphreys - Mobile Media & Communication, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
When the inaugural issue of Mobile Media and Communication (MMC) was published in
2013, I began my article with the story of the Lovegety, a stand-alone device in Japan in the …

5G and the digital imagination: Pacific Islands perspectives from Fiji and Papua New Guinea

HA Horst, RJ Foster - Media International Australia, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores the ways in which 5G networks are imagined in the Pacific Islands
nations of Fiji and Papua New Guinea. What promises, anxieties and futures have the …

Shaping infrastructural futures: The International Telecommunication Union's visions for mobile communications and the anticipatory politics of 5G standardization

K Hegarty, R Wilken, J Meese… - Mobile Media & …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
This article shows how dominant actors inscribe certain ideas, visions, and predictions of
infrastructural futures for international mobile telecommunications through standardization. It …

Looking back to look forward: 5G/COVID-19 conspiracies and the long history of infrastructural fears

J Frith, S Campbell, L Komen - Mobile Media & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Almost as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading throughout much of the world,
conspiracies arose that blamed the virus on the deployment of fifth-generation cellular …

Classrooms in the metaverse: educational applications and levels of learner interaction in virtual reality

RJ Gualano, SW Campbell - Communication Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Full article: Classrooms in the metaverse: educational applications and levels of learner interaction
in virtual reality Skip to Main Content Taylor and Francis Online homepage Taylor and Francis …

Technology is a wish your heart makes: How Disney harnesses practical magic discourse to legitimize MyMagic+

K Cotter, P Kumar, A De, R Tan - new media & society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores how Disney employs magical discourse to legitimize its MyMagic+
system. Through an analysis of the Disney Parks blog, we introduce the concept practical …

[HTML][HTML] Expect the unimaginable: A document analysis of expectations for 5G in UK newspapers

L Williams - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2024 - Elsevier
I conduct a document analysis of two UK national newspapers in order to assess the
technological expectations that were expressed about 5G mobile networks over the period …

Hybrid Space revisited: from concept toward theory

A de Souza e Silva, SW Campbell… - Communication …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Hybrid Spaces emerge from the blending of physical and digital spaces produced by the
mobility of people communicating via mobile technologies. This articulation of Hybrid Space …

Reimagining the personal network: The Case of path

JB Bayer, MD Sweitzer, H Xiang… - Social Media+ …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The rise of highly curated networks is a pivotal dimension of social media history, yet its
diverse origins remain overlooked. Here, two inductive studies investigated the case of Path …

Predicting the next decade of mobile communication studies research: More mobile media, fewer mobile phones

J Frith - Mobile Media & Communication, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The growth of Mobile Media & Communication (MMC) in the journal's first decade has been
both remarkable and somewhat understandable. On the one hand, the journal—and mobile …