ABSTRACT
By exploring some of the multivalent voices in choices around what Andrew Murphie (2007) calls “technics of mobility,” we can see that the labor around mediated intimacy is haunted by other (older) media just as it has ghosts of users’ previous experiences and memories. For Murphie, technics of mobility structure and organize how we live life. As Murphie identifies, through mobile technologies we can get a sense of the broader forms of labor and intimacy. Mobile technologies provide insight into “new technics of mobility”—that is, arising social, collective, and subjective processes of living in the contemporary world.
