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Digital Immigrants and Media Integration

The Smartphone Is the Synthesizer

Sally J. McMillan

In Digital Immigrants and Media Integration: The Smartphone Is the Synthesizer, Sally J. McMillan draws insights from the lived experience of digital immigrants who are Baby Boomers and who grew up without digital mobile technologies and have transitioned to become smartphone users. McMillan traces key points in media evolution that shaped the communication tools that digital immigrants use today, demonstrating that continued incremental change has led to a shift in focus from media types to media interfaces, with smartphones becoming ubiquitous and indispensable – the smartphone, she posits, is now firmly tied to identity. Although the telegraph was the first medium to allow the message to arrive before the messenger and initiated the transition from “cool” to “hot” media, it is the smartphone that has fully synthesized communication forms and functions into a single digital and mobile device. Through collecting and analyzing these personal and public histories, McMillan finds that digital immigrants continue to seek a balance between value and ease, and between breadth and depth of communication. Scholars of communication, media ecology, and technology will find this book of particular interest.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 158 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66691-933-2 • Hardback • June 2023 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
978-1-66691-934-9 • eBook • July 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies, Technology & Engineering / General, Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies

Sally J. McMillan is professor emerita at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

List of Tables

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1: Introduction

Section I: Forms

Chapter 2: Talking: With and without a Tether

Chapter 3: Writing: From Atoms and Ink to Bits and Bytes

Chapter 4: Pictures: Still, Moving, and “Appy”

Section II: Functions

Chapter 5: Keeping up with Family, Friends, and Trends

Chapter 6: (Re)searching and Navigating

Chapter 7: Commerce and Commercials

Chapter 8: Conclusion

Appendix: Method

References

About the Author

“Digital Immigrants and Media Integration is an engaging and lucid exploration of the long term experiences and implications of new media. Grounded in a cultural and phenomenological approach to communication the book illuminates the often overlooked mundane but critically important interactions we have with contemporary communication technologies.”


— Steve Jones, University of Illinois Chicago


Digital Immigrants and Media Integration

The Smartphone Is the Synthesizer

Cover Image
Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • In Digital Immigrants and Media Integration: The Smartphone Is the Synthesizer, Sally J. McMillan draws insights from the lived experience of digital immigrants who are Baby Boomers and who grew up without digital mobile technologies and have transitioned to become smartphone users. McMillan traces key points in media evolution that shaped the communication tools that digital immigrants use today, demonstrating that continued incremental change has led to a shift in focus from media types to media interfaces, with smartphones becoming ubiquitous and indispensable – the smartphone, she posits, is now firmly tied to identity. Although the telegraph was the first medium to allow the message to arrive before the messenger and initiated the transition from “cool” to “hot” media, it is the smartphone that has fully synthesized communication forms and functions into a single digital and mobile device. Through collecting and analyzing these personal and public histories, McMillan finds that digital immigrants continue to seek a balance between value and ease, and between breadth and depth of communication. Scholars of communication, media ecology, and technology will find this book of particular interest.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 158 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-66691-933-2 • Hardback • June 2023 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
    978-1-66691-934-9 • eBook • July 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies, Technology & Engineering / General, Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
Author
Author
  • Sally J. McMillan is professor emerita at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • List of Tables

    Acknowledgement

    Chapter 1: Introduction

    Section I: Forms

    Chapter 2: Talking: With and without a Tether

    Chapter 3: Writing: From Atoms and Ink to Bits and Bytes

    Chapter 4: Pictures: Still, Moving, and “Appy”

    Section II: Functions

    Chapter 5: Keeping up with Family, Friends, and Trends

    Chapter 6: (Re)searching and Navigating

    Chapter 7: Commerce and Commercials

    Chapter 8: Conclusion

    Appendix: Method

    References

    About the Author

Reviews
Reviews
  • “Digital Immigrants and Media Integration is an engaging and lucid exploration of the long term experiences and implications of new media. Grounded in a cultural and phenomenological approach to communication the book illuminates the often overlooked mundane but critically important interactions we have with contemporary communication technologies.”


    — Steve Jones, University of Illinois Chicago


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