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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 Thornham
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 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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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Media, Culture & Society

ISSN

0163-4437

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Issue

8

Volume

38

Page range

1153-1168

Department affiliated with

  • Media and Film Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-03-04

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-11-10

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-03-03

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