Beschreibung:
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.
1. Introduction: the Smartphone Phenomenon Part 1: Pragmatics, Cyberpragmatics and Smartphones 2. Relevance Theory, Internet Pragmatics and Cyberpragmatics 3. Contextual Constraints and Non-Propositional Effects 4. Smartphone Communication and App Usability Part 2: Smartphone-Mediated Discourse and Communication 5. Texting: From Sms to Smartphone Messaging 6. Phone Calls and Video Calls are (Surprisingly) also Enabled 7. New Narratives and Storytelling on the Smartphone Part 3: Media on the Smartphone 8. Media on the Smartphone: Images 9. Media on the Smartphone: Video and Animation (Gif, Sticker) Part Iv: The Interplay Between the Physical and the Virtual 10. Live Streaming: The Case of Twitch 11. Location-Based Smartphone Interaction 12. Towards Online-Offline Congruence: Social Networking Apps 13. Concluding Remarks and Future Projections