The digital mundane

Social media and the military

Bibliographic Data

ID11267652
AuthorsSarah Maltby (University of Sussex, corresponding author), Helen Thornham (0000-0003-1302-6579, University of Leeds)
Year2016
Volume38
Issue8
Pages1153-1168
Publication date2016-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0163443716646173
OpenAlexW2288451824
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited50

This article draws on empirical data with British military personnel in order to investigate what we call the digital mundane in military life. We argue that social media and smartphone technologies within the military offer a unique environment in which to investigate the ways individuals position themselves within certain axes of institutional and cultural identities. At the same time, the convolutions, mediatory practices and mundane social media rituals that service personnel employ through their smartphones resonate widely with, for example, youth culture and digital mobile cultures. Together, they suggest complex mediations with social and mobile media that draw on and extend non-military practice into new (and increasingly normative) terrains

Business · Internet privacy · Media studies · Military service · Normative · Order (exchange · Political science · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Social Media and Politics

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