[Commlist] New book Teen Boys and their Smartphones as Worldmaking Devices In the Palm of their Hands

*Teen Boys and their Smartphones as Worldmaking Devices In the Palm of 
their Hands*


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This book is about how teen boys use their smartphones to create a world 
for themselves and their peers. Based on an ethnographic fieldwork 
spanning two years and following six teenage boys on and offline, the 
book investigates what kind of worlds these boys are making, and how. It 
explores the ways in which teen boys connect with other people and 
express themselves, how they gain agency and make shared worlds. It also 
asks to what extent this worldmaking is shaped by the opportunities and 
constraints of technology as well as by social and cultural patterns and 
the individual existential projects of its creators. A key finding of 
the book is how smartphone technology offers boys belonging to an 
ethnocultural or sexual minority new opportunities and agency. This book 
sheds much-needed light on how the smartphone impacts teenage lives and 
breaks new ground with its focus on boys, and by introducing the 
worldmaking perspective, inspired by the thinking of Hannah Arendt, to 
the study of digital lives.

*Author:* John Magnus R. Dahl (PhD University of Bergen 2021) 
((joda /at/ hum.ku.dk)) is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen 
– Department of Communication. The research reported in this book was 
carried out during his postdoc at UiB’s MediaFutures: Research Centre 
for Responsible Media Technology and Innovation. He has shared his 
research in Norwegian media, on international academic conferences and 
in classroom settings.

Link:
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-93010-2

Toc:

Setting the Scene
 Introduction: The Connected Lives of Teenage Boys
 Making a (Boys) World for Oneself and for Others
 The Boys

Talking
 Alone Together?
 Talking to Friends
 Talking with Strangers: The Dating App

Posting, Sharing, Following and Hiding
 Are Social Network Sites Bedrooms or Malls?
 Being the Foreigner at School
 Being Gay in the World
 “Just Being” a Straight White Boy

Conclusion

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