Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture)

Synopsis

This book offers a unique model for understanding the cognitive underpinnings, interactions and discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphones in everyday app-mediated communication, from text messages and GIFs to images, video and social media apps. Adopting a cyberpragmatics framework, grounded in cognitive pragmatics and relevance theory, it gives attention to how both the particular interfaces of different apps and users’ personal attributes influence the contexts and uses of smartphone communication. The communication of emotions – in addition to primarily linguistic content – is foregrounded as an essential element of the kinds of ever-present paralinguistic and phatic communication that characterises our exchange of memes, GIFs, "likes," and image- and video-based content. Insights from related disciplines such as media studies and sociology are incorporated as the author unpacks the timeliest questions of our digitally mediated age. Aimed primarily at scholars and graduate students of communication, linguistics, pragmatics, media studies, and sociology of mass media, Smartphone Communication traffics in topics that will likewise engage upper-level undergraduate students.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

318 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000433142

Related ISBNs:

9781003200574, 9781032060668, 9781032060675

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

09/06/21

Copyrighted By:

Francisco Yus. The right of Francisco Yus to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.