Abstract
This article examines how current widespread smartphone adoption and usage plays out in the everyday lives of young Swedes. Drawing on the framework of media and information and communication technology domestication, we examine the appropriation and incorporation of new mobile media as well as the redefined roles and meanings of traditional mobile communication channels (i.e., text messages and voice calls). Based on an in-depth study of 18 high-school students, the study explores how practices, roles and experiences associated with mobile social communication are currently evolving with the advent of smartphones. The main arguments are that emerging ‘smart’ practices are reorienting mobile social communication towards the increased centrality of images and visual messaging, ‘groups’ and many-to-many contact, and mediated social contact as an intensified background setting. At the same time, SMS and voice calls have been removed from the centre of young people’s social communication.
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