Tethered compliance: Exploring the role of the smartphone in online civic engagement among low-income US young people through two pandemic-era case studies

IF 3.1 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI:10.1177/20501579231208006
Lynn Schofield Clark, Carlos Jimenez, Johnny C. Ramirez
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This article considers the roles that smartphones play as young people living in low-income communities navigate everyday activities, including those of online civic engagement. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during the COVID-19 lockdown, we offer empirical and methodological support for Hartmann’s concept of mediated mobilism, highlighting smartphone-related frictions and tensions that emerge at the intersections of social and political mobilities and immobilities. Specifically, our data demonstrate that as smartphones kept young people on call for parents, caregivers, siblings and others who might need them to help negotiate the heightened demands that characterized family life during the pandemic, young people found themselves in situations that we term tethered compliance, torn between the desire to participate in online civic engagement and political mobilization and the need to fulfill various exigencies of family life that emerged as a result of physical and social immobilities. Whereas scholars previously argued that mobile media held promise for mitigating structural inequality and enhancing youth online civic engagement, our findings suggest that these technologies are instead adding a new layer to be managed.
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被束缚的遵从:通过两个大流行病时期的案例研究,探索智能手机在美国低收入年轻人参与网络公民活动中的作用
本文探讨了生活在低收入社区的年轻人在日常活动(包括网络公民参与)中使用智能手机时所扮演的角色。利用在 COVID-19 封锁期间收集到的人种学数据,我们为哈特曼的 "中介动员 "概念提供了经验和方法上的支持,强调了在社会和政治流动性与不流动性交汇处出现的与智能手机有关的摩擦和紧张关系。具体来说,我们的数据表明,由于智能手机让年轻人随时可以与父母、照顾者、兄弟姐妹和其他可能需要他们的人联系,以帮助应对大流行病期间家庭生活的高要求,年轻人发现自己处于我们称之为 "被拴住的顺从 "的境地,在参与网络公民参与和政治动员的愿望与满足因物理和社会不流动性而出现的各种家庭生活需求之间挣扎。以前有学者认为,移动媒体有望缓解结构性不平等并提高青年的网络公民参与度,而我们的研究结果表明,这些技术反而增加了一个需要管理的新层面。
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期刊介绍: Mobile Media & Communication is a peer-reviewed forum for international, interdisciplinary academic research on the dynamic field of mobile media and communication. Mobile Media & Communication draws on a wide and continually renewed range of disciplines, engaging broadly in the concept of mobility itself.
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