This book reviews recent studies into smartphones and the news, arguing that the greatest impact on the smartphone as a dominant technological artefact for news will be to shift it away from an authoritative, fixed 'first draft of history' to become a flexible stream of information from which each individual constructs their own meaning.

Andrew Duffy is a former newspaper and magazine journalist and editor who has worked in Singapore and the UK. He is currently Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies at the Wee Kim Wee School at Nanyang Technological University, where he teaches varied forms of journalism and researches into the interface between mobility and the media.

1. Turn on your smartphone ; 2. Going mobile ; 3. Sources and objectivity ; 4. MoJos on the move ; 5. We the newspeople ; 6. Something to shout about ; 7. Twitter ; 8. News pursues me ; 9. Freedom to choose - or not to choose ; 10. Snacking in the interstices of life ; 11. A time and a place for news ; 12. Still moving