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

IF 3.1 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-13 DOI:10.1177/20501579221126958
J. Frith
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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 communication studies (MCS) as a field more generally—have made amazing strides in just 10 years, going from a brand-new journal in 2013 to one of the International Communication Association’s top journals by 2022. On the other hand, the growth is somewhat explainable because mobile phones have now become the dominant form of contemporary communication media. Back whenMMC published its inaugural issue, smartphones were still relatively new (at least in academic research terms) and there was a relatively small number of communication researchers who focused on mobile phone practices. But that is obviously no longer the case. At this point, most media studies research focuses on smartphones because most media are accessed through smartphones. Consequently, while the rise of the smartphone helped MMC and MCS grow, simply studying smartphones has not been what has cemented MCS as an identifiable field of research (Campbell, 2019). Instead, MCS has continued to develop as a field because of the community of researchers and, maybe most importantly, MMC. Without the mobile research community and MMC as a venue to set the tone for the field, we could have easily been swallowed up by more established communication fields. In fact, I suspect that’s exactly what would have happened as smartphones became ubiquitous and smartphone research became far too prevalent to group it all under the MCS label. If all we had tying us together as a research community was “we study mobile phones,” then we would have little reason to exist in 2022 when most communication research is at least tangentially
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预测未来十年的移动通信研究:移动媒体越多,手机就越少
移动媒体与通信(MMC)在该杂志的第一个十年里的增长既引人注目,也有点可以理解。一方面,该杂志——以及更广泛的移动通信研究(MCS)领域——在短短10年内取得了惊人的进步,从2013年的一本全新期刊到2022年成为国际通信协会的顶级期刊之一。另一方面,这种增长是可以解释的,因为手机现在已经成为当代通信媒体的主导形式。当MMC出版创刊号时,智能手机仍然相对较新(至少在学术研究方面),专注于手机实践的通信研究人员相对较少。但现在显然已经不是这样了。目前,大多数媒体研究都集中在智能手机上,因为大多数媒体都是通过智能手机访问的。因此,尽管智能手机的兴起帮助了MMC和MCS的发展,但仅仅研究智能手机并没有巩固MCS作为一个可识别的研究领域的地位(Campbell,2019)。相反,MCS作为一个领域继续发展,因为研究人员的社区,也许最重要的是MMC。如果没有移动研究社区和MMC作为为该领域定下基调的场所,我们很容易被更成熟的通信领域所吞噬。事实上,我怀疑这正是当智能手机变得无处不在,智能手机研究变得过于普遍,无法将其全部归为MCS标签时会发生的事情。如果我们把我们作为一个研究社区联系在一起的只是“我们研究手机”,那么我们就没有什么理由在2022年存在,因为大多数通信研究都是微不足道的
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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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