Researching Mobile Media Technology is the very first special issue of the Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology, a brand new peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to research on digital environments and cultures, the impact of new media on expressions of self and social formations, the theory and practice of ethnographic filmmaking, and the study of online-and offline visual worlds. The journal is a venture of our Research Area Visual and Media Anthropology. It will present work that self-consciously experiments with innovative modes of representation, new forms of integrating written and multi-media ethnography and therefore seeks to challenge the conventions of academic publishing. With this initial special issue,we want to feature fresh and timely research by young scholars from the Master’s Program in Visual and Media Anthropology. Their work is concerned with the rise of mobile technology and apps culture and their influence on self-presentation and social relations in the digital age.
