What does this research mean for the field?

Understanding the sociotechnical diversity and everyday integration of mobile AI requires an assemblage-centered analytical lens that moves beyond dominant PC-based, productivity-focused paradigms. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.CHALLENGES_CONSENSUS.

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This commentary aims to shift the focus of AI discourse from PC-centric to mobile AI, emphasizing its sociotechnical diversity.

June 17, 2026Mobile Media & Communication

Rethinking AI From the Mobile End: An Assemblage-Centered Lens

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JXJack Linzhou XingHarvard University Press

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Commentary explores mobile AI's unique context in shaping everyday life, highlighting its sociotechnical implications.

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This commentary aims to shift the focus of AI discourse from PC-centric to mobile AI, emphasizing its sociotechnical diversity.
Develops an assemblage-centered lens emphasizing AI's contingent and contextual trajectories.
Analyzes three parameters: associated milieu, lock-in, and detachment.
Uses case examples from ByteDance's Doubao and Tencent's Yuanbao.
Demonstrates that traditional AI discourse limits understanding of mobile AI's potential.
Suggests recognizing mobile AI's unique pathways of infrastructuralization in daily activities.

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Jack Linzhou Xing (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a323e9ed50b63ecad207c36 https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579261458249

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