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The ubiquitous rise of mobile gaming has often been attributed to the success of the smartphone and its application ecology. However, mobile gaming has many histories subject to intersecting contextual trajectories—socio-linguistic, geographical, technocultural, medium, and platform specific. That is, the definition and constitution of ‘mobile gaming’ depends largely upon one’s historical epoch and cultural region, in terms of broader technological, economic, and transnational flows, the collective gaming habits, attitudes, and uptake within one’s cultural milieu, and more narrowly upon one’s individual game experiences and preferences within these contexts.
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© 2014 Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardson
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Hjorth, L., Richardson, I. (2014). Locating the Mobile: The Unruly and Ambiguous Rise of Mobile Gaming. In: Gaming in Social, Locative, and Mobile Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137301420_3
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