ABSTRACT
Central to today’s multiplatform, digitally networked spaces and places of news consumption are new dynamics of mobility. We say “new”, because a dialectics of mobility has long been constitutive of news audiences. News involves the inclusion of the novel or newsworthy in the rituals, movements, and cycles, the habitus of everyday life. Following the emergence of popular, portable, printed news media, especially from the eighteenth century onwards, news could be consumed in a café, on public or private transport, or in a workplace or public park, as much as a household. Radio later extended these situated relationships-especially in its minaturised, battery-operated, transistor form (Arceneaux 2014); and so too eventually did television, where the receiver could move along with its audiences (Goggin 2006). The consumption of news then has long involved historically material, culturally specific, and socially coordinated relationships with time, space, and place.
