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The digital mundane, social media and the military
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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:26 authored by Sarah MaltbySarah Maltby, Helen ThornhamThis 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 individual’s 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 resonates widely with, for example, youth culture, digital mobile cultures. Together they suggest complex mediations with social and mobile media, that draws on, and extends non-military practice into new (and increasingly normative) terrains.
Funding
Defence, Uncertainty, Now Media (DUN): Mappin Social Media in Strategic Communications; G1223; ESRC-ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL; ES/K011170/1
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- Published
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- Accepted version
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Media, Culture & SocietyISSN
0163-4437Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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8Volume
38Page range
1153-1168Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
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- Yes
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- Yes
Legacy Posted Date
2016-03-04First Open Access (FOA) Date
2016-11-10First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2016-03-03Usage metrics
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