... This chapter explore the scene’s “social preconditions,” in other words, the larger forces and phenomena happening in the 1960s through the 1970s that created a social context in which the mobile scene could take root and grow. That includes both structural forces, such as large-scale...

... or forming mobile crews of their own. disc jockeys Asian American Filipino American homosociality gender ...

... infrastructure” through which crews and clients could find one another, helping to circulate the necessary economic capital to help build the mobile scene over time. disc jockeys Asian American Filipino American symbolic capital social networks ...

... This chapter discusses the confluence of different forces that led to the declining interest in the mobile DJ scene. Those factors were both internal (within the scene) and external. Internal factors included shortcomings in recruitment of younger members; improving fortunes for individual DJs...

... Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace use their archive of the Mobile Homecoming Project, a cross-country project in which the authors travel the United States creating ritual for and with black lgbtq visionaries, to examine what it means to move from individual recognition (neither...

... Since the mobile phone was the first technology in recent times to truly disrupt money—Kenya’s M-Pesa service having taken the country by storm—this chapter looks at what people do with phones besides make calls and send text messages. Understanding the use cases of the mobile phone was central...

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... Based on the author’s artistic project IntuiTweet, which integrates movement improvisation, phenomenological writing, mobile phones, and the popular social-networking platform Twitter, this chapter explores choreographic and performative approaches to the study of embodied expression...