By Mél Hogan & Andrea Zeffiro
This special issue of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines who reconfigure the concepts of ‘mobile’ and ‘mobilities’ in relation to trash.
By Sarah T. Roberts
The story of a rogue Canadian garbage barge attempting to offload illegal garbage in the Philippines opens this article on techno-trash.
By Sabine LeBel
A preliminary exploration into the historical, material, and virtual contexts of the trashcan icon.
By Josh Lepawsky
To investigate mobile trash, one must move offworld. Representations of offworld rubbish might be usefully approached as cosmograms.
By Jenny Kennedy & Rowan Wilken
This article explores views on, and negotiations of, the paradoxical issues in regards to the disposability of USB portable hard drives.
By David Harris Smith, Frauke Zeller & Andrea Zeffiro
A conversation about the cultural significance of hitchBOT, the infamous hitchhiking robot.
By Karma Chahine
This paper examines the concept of mobility in relation to The Garage Sale Trail in Sydney.
By Jennie Olofsson
Informed by previous studies that employ Actor Network-Theory, this article discusses electronic waste as fluid objects.
By Frankie Kubicki
This article examines the paper cup as part of a new mobile society, looking at the influence of demographic changes that fuelled paper cup use.
By Deena Rymhs
Yahgulanaas’s art installations re-cast normative notions of value by transforming the remnants of automobile manufacturing into singular works of art.