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Each chapter provides rich and accessible narratives of mobile media practices interwoven with current scholarship in media studies and phenomenology, with a concluding chapter that reflects on mobile media use as a synesthetic experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy interpreting theoretical insights about the relationship between the body and technology, the book serves as an important work of knowledge translation. 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