@article{Ribak_Rosenthal_2015, title={Smartphone resistance as media ambivalence}, volume={20}, url={https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6307}, DOI={10.5210/fm.v20i11.6307}, abstractNote={<p>In this paper, we develop the notion of media ambivalence to account for such seemingly unrelated practices as content filtering, screen-time limitation and social media rejection. We propose that as compared to resistances to dedicated communication technologies with an on/off button, resistances in a neoliberal age of ubiquitous, convergent media are temporary and local. Analyzing interviews with smartphone resisters, we discuss their critique of smartphone culture; their investment in their feature phones and their pride and unease over using them; and their sense that their resistance cannot last. Interpreting smartphone resistance as a form of media ambivalence, we suggest that in terms of <em>scope</em>, contemporary resistance is aimed at a single medium, platform or practice that is singled out of the convergence; that its meaning <em>develops</em> over time along with technological and cultural changes; and that it acquires personal, social and political <em>significance</em> from related uses and resistances.</p>}, number={11}, journal={First Monday}, author={Ribak, Rivka and Rosenthal, Michele}, year={2015}, month={Nov.} }