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Young People and the Smartphone

Everyday Life on the Small Screen

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Authors:
  1. Michela Drusian

    1. Communication and Education, Salesian University Institute of Venice, Venezia, Italy

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  2. Paolo Magaudda

    1. Department FISPPA, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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  3. Cosimo Marco Scarcelli

    1. Department FISPPA, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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  • Provides up-to-date knowledge on smartphone research in social sciences

  • Gives detailed and fascinating insights into the everyday use of smartphones

  • Questions common-sense vision of practices like shopping, music, photography carried out by youth people

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Young People, the Smartphone, and Our Deeply Mediatised World

    • Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, Michela Drusian, Paolo Magaudda
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Smartphone as an Infrastructural Media Technology

    • Paolo Magaudda
    Pages 13-28

  4. Intimately Connected Devices

    • Cosimo Marco Scarcelli
    Pages 29-45

  5. Digital Photography Practices

    • Michela Drusian
    Pages 47-66

  6. Smartphones, Music Platforms, and the Algorithm Selection

    • Paolo Magaudda
    Pages 67-84

  7. Apps and Consumer Experiences

    • Michela Drusian
    Pages 85-105

  8. Smartphones Beyond Addiction

    • Cosimo Marco Scarcelli
    Pages 107-125

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 127-129
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About this book

In recent years, smartphones and digital platforms have become essential to our lives and are now inextricably interwoven into the everyday practices of millions, especially young people. Focusing on smartphone practices and experiences of youth today, this volume is the result of empirical research based on focus groups and in-depth interviews with young people aged 18-30. Grounded in media theory and analyzed through a blended lens of media and science and technology studies, the book offers detailed and fascinating insights into the everyday use of smartphones. Topics covered include the role of the smartphone as material technology, its use in interpersonal relationships, photographic practices, music and consumer practices, along with the deconstruction of the notion of smartphone ‘addiction’.



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Smart, highly accessible and fully grounded in empirical research, this book provides essential insight into the role that smart phones play in young people’s everyday lives. The authors address phones as infrastructural tools and actors in the formation of intimacies, musical and consumer preferences, steering clear of generalizations in favour of rich ambiguity. Key reading for educators, journalists, scholars and students interested in what young people do with smart phones, and what smart phones do to, and for them.

Susanna Paasonen, Professor of Media Studies, University of Turku


Each chapter introduces current research on various aspects of the smartphone experience and provides insightful examples of how young adults evaluate and engage with these devices. Students will appreciate this very contemporary material.


Leslie haddon, London School of Economics

Authors and Affiliations

  • Communication and Education, Salesian University Institute of Venice, Venezia, Italy

    Michela Drusian

  • Department FISPPA, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Paolo Magaudda, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli

About the authors

Michela Drusian teaches Sociology of Consumption at IUSVE-Venice, where she is the coordinator of research activities for the Department of Communication and Education. Her research interests focus on the relationship between young people and new media.

Paolo Magaudda is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Padova. His work concentrates on the interactions between culture, technology and society with a focus on digital media, consumption processes and music technologies.

Cosimo Marco Scarcelli is Assistant Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Padova. His research interests deal with the relationship between digital media, intimacy, gender and sexuality with a focus on young people.

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