#Callforpapers for a #SpecialIssue on "Mobile communication and later life: from theories to empirical frescoes"🧓👴👵 ▪️ Abstract submission date: 15 Feb 2024 ▪️ Guest editors: Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol & Sakari Taipale CfP: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmsc… Journal: journals.sagepub.com/home/MMC

Have you read our article of the month for November? We've selected the #openaccess paper "Revisiting the social construction of old age" by Dr Chris Gilleard. Read it in full here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… #ageing #gerotwitter #socialgerontology

Check my review of Dr. @[email protected]' 'Digital Migration' on New Media & Society – a crucial read for understanding the field and scholarship of digital migration. Rem(a)inder: Ageing, mobility and internal migration intersect, vital for future research. doi.org/10.1177/146144…

As smartphone costs fall and society becomes more atomized, China’s elderly are using apps like Douyin to find connection and companionship. Many feel they have no choice. wired.trib.al/qDTXX4l

Wired magazine just released an article discussing the usage of Douyin/TikTok by elderly individuals in China. It features my research findings and experiences as a caregiver. Check it out here: wired.com/story/china-tr…

Older adults wouldn't date in a pandemic, right? Wrong! Loneliness, dating norms, and COVID-safe dates allowed older adults to keep dating, despite the risks, illustrating the value of romantic relationships at all ages. Check out my new article in JWA! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Yongjian Li Yongjian Groenendijk-Li shares insights and findings regarding Chinese older people's utilisation of Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, in a feature for Wired. Read more: bit.ly/3GAsb37

👇👇Check my recent media appearance. Thanks🤗 to my colleagues who manage this content.

Interested in reviewing new books and multimodal works? We would like to hear from you! Check out our updated list of fascinating recent publications, and find all the practical information on the journal’s website. anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age…

Call for Book Reviewers! If you're interested to review the latest book in the field of mobile media and communication, kindly email me. I highly encourage PhD students and ECRs to review a book in Mobile Media & Comm. You'll be mentored. Kindly share widely. Thank you! 🥂

Happy new year, everyone! Thank you for following this page. Feel free to add your works to the collective reading list. Cheers! - Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, PhD, admin of Digital Migration Network

Thrilled to share new publication on Feminist Media Studies. We look into the account suspension in digital feminism in China, and conceptualize cyber living ghosts as new forms of subjectivity of these banned feminists to react to online enforced disappearance tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Accented thinking is a response and a reaction to the condition of coloniality that structures the processes of knowledge production. Great paper from Shahram Khosravi tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

On 23rd April as part of EQUIMOB seminar Prof. Martin Hyde will launch and discuss the scope of the new Journal of Global Ageing! Come join the discussion!

Celebrated my marriage on June 12th, and this touching note from a student added to the joy! Grateful to guide such curious minds ESHCC. Thanks to all my students for enriching this year. Excited for what’s next and feeling thankful for every blessing!

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Presented 'Reframing LGBT+ Ageing' at @britgerontology #BSG2024 this afternoon based on chapter co-written with Matthew Hall available open access here bloomsbury.com/uk/framing-age… Surrey Sociology

Super proud of guanqinhe for publishing her first PhD fieldwork based article on female migrant workers in the Chinese gig-economy - in this collaborative article we seek to develop research on the migrantization of digital labor by addressing experiences of domestic Ayi's

KEYNOTE: ‘Doing Cultural Research in Asia: Intercultural Influencers in East Asia’ Join wishcrys for this keynote introducing a new theory of ‘Intercultural Influencers’ on 6 Sept 24, 9:00am - 10:30am AEST. More info & online tickets available here: eventbrite.com.au/e/doing-cultur…