Maltby, S and Thornham, HM (2016) The digital mundane: social media and the military. Media, Culture and Society, 38 (8). pp. 1153-1168. ISSN 0163-4437
Abstract
This article draws on empirical data with British military personnel in order to investigate what we call the digital mundane in military life. We argue that social media and smartphone technologies within the military offer a unique environment in which to investigate the ways individuals position themselves within certain axes of institutional and cultural identities. At the same time, the convolutions, mediatory practices and mundane social media rituals that service personnel employ through their smartphones resonate widely with, for example, youth culture and digital mobile cultures. Together, they suggest complex mediations with social and mobile media that draw on and extend non-military practice into new (and increasingly normative) terrains.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016, The Authors. This is an author produced version of a paper accepted for publication in Media, Culture and Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy |
Keywords: | digital; gender; military; mobile culture; social media; sociotechnical |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC ES/K011170/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2016 12:55 |
Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2016 20:20 |
Published Version: | http://doi.org/10.1177/0163443716646173 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0163443716646173 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:96172 |