The Visual Construction of the Phone Mount: An Inquiry into Media Materiality in Mobile Contexts
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Phone Mount, Mobile Context, Visual Practice, Platformization, MaterialityAbstract
This study delves into the installation, utilization and platform-based practices of phone mounts among food delivery riders and Didi drivers. It explores how phone mounts construct visions and embody the materiality of communication. As a portable, detachable and installable device, the phone mount fixes the viewing angle. Together with mobile phones and the platforms behind their interfaces, it creates more visual possibilities, maintains multiple visual foci during movement, and thus sustains the material connections under production pressures. Essentially, the visual experience constructed by the phone mount accomplishes the translation among the platform, the mount users and vision itself.
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