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This book advocates a new post-digital linguistic ethnography approach to unpacking mobile communication and enabling a more informed understanding of individuals' communicative practices in cities today. Drawing on data from a group of ordinary working people, multilingual individuals from superdiverse cities across the United Kingdom, the volume brings observations from this data together to form a new concept of resourcefulness' as a means of explaining the emergent sense of agency individuals develop towards remediating existing forms of technology in their everyday lives. The book in turn establishes the notion of the networked individual' by way of demonstrating the ways in which communicative practices cross spaces and platforms. Further chapters detail examples to highlight resourcefulness at work in enabling more efficient business communication, routes to self-expression and the creation and development of social support systems, while a concluding chapter looks at both th

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction

  3. Post-digital ethnography and the networked individual

  5. Mobile resourcefulness

  7. Polymedia repertoires

  9. Sharing in mobile conversations

  11. Conclusion

Mobile Messaging and Resourcefulness

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 1/29/2024 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781032269412
      978-1032269412
      ISBN-10 1032269413
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book advocates a new post-digital linguistic ethnography approach to unpacking mobile communication and enabling a more informed understanding of individuals' communicative practices in cities today. Drawing on data from a group of ordinary working people, multilingual individuals from superdiverse cities across the United Kingdom, the volume brings observations from this data together to form a new concept of resourcefulness' as a means of explaining the emergent sense of agency individuals develop towards remediating existing forms of technology in their everyday lives. The book in turn establishes the notion of the networked individual' by way of demonstrating the ways in which communicative practices cross spaces and platforms. Further chapters detail examples to highlight resourcefulness at work in enabling more efficient business communication, routes to self-expression and the creation and development of social support systems, while a concluding chapter looks at both th

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction

      3. Post-digital ethnography and the networked individual

      5. Mobile resourcefulness

      7. Polymedia repertoires

      9. Sharing in mobile conversations

      11. Conclusion

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