Smartphone Cultures explores questions about the ways in which mobile technology has been appropriated and incorporated into everyday social practices, focusing on questions of how the smartphone has affected contemporary social relations. Presenting the latest research from the UK, Europe, the US and Australia, it sets out the context within which such technologies were developed and how they have been adopted and shaped to support lived culture. With attention to issues of 'prosumerism', parental concerns about smartphone use and the use of phones in and out of school, this book examines practices such as reading, writing, gambling and watching television on such devices.

List of Figures and Tables, Introduction, 1. Introducing Smartphone Cultures (Jane Vincent and Leslie Haddon), Part I Infrastructure and Applications, 2. Circuit(s) of affective infrastructuring: Smartphones and Electricity (Maren Hartmann), 3. Mobile Betting Apps: Odds on the Social (César Albarrán-Torres and Gerard Goggin), Part II Understanding Family Consumption, 4. Parental practices in the era of smartphones (Cristina Ponte, José Alberto Simões, Claudia Lampert, and Anka Velicu), 5. Older People, Smartphones and WhatsApp (Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol and Andrea Rosales), Part III Developing domestication through empirical studies, 6. Domestication and social constraints on ICT use: Children's engagement with smartphones (Leslie Haddon), 7. Domesticating Smartphones (Troels Fibaek Bertel), Part IV Managing Sociability, 8. Collective uses of mobile phones in the global South: Cultural diversity among low-income groups in Brazil and in South Africa (Carla Barros), 9. Adolescents and Smartphones: Coping with overload (Maialen Garmendia. Miguel Casado del Río, Estefanía Jimenez), 10. Addiction or emancipation? Children's attachment to smartphones as a cultural practice (Giovanna Mascheroni), Part V Regulating the Smartphone, 11. Smartphones in the classroom: Current practices and future visions. Perspectives from teachers and children (Sofie Vandoninck, Marije Nouwen, Bieke Zaman), 12. Experiences of writing on smartphones, laptops, and paper in the digital age (Sora Park and Naomi S. Baron), 13. Student's preferences for smartphones versus other media within their academic study (Jane Vincent, John O'Sullivan, Christopher Lim and Manuela Farinosi), Conclusion, 14. Concluding Smartphone Cultures (Leslie Haddon and Jane Vincent), Contributors, Index