From disasters to celebrations, camera phone practices play a key role in the abundance of shared images globally (Frosh 2015; Hjorth and Hendry 2015; Hjorth and Burgess 2014; Van House et al. 2005). Photography has always had a complicated relationship with death. This paper focuses on how mobile devices, through the broadcasting of troubling material, can simultaneously lead to misrecognition of the self (Wendt 2015) alongside an often-public evidentiary experience of trauma and grief. In this paper we will focus on the companionship of mobile devices in users' most desperate hours. Use of mobile devices in crisis situations generate affective responses and uses. We will draw from case studies to highlight the power of the mobile to not only remind us that media has always been social, but that mobile media is challenging how the social is constituted by the political and the personal, and the ethical mediation between both. The ethical, psychological, moral and existential challenges that this new kind of witnessing poses will be explored.

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移动电话面临死亡：情感见证和设备的亲密伙伴关系

从灾难到庆典，照相电话的使用在全球共享图像中起着关键作用（Frosh 2015； Hjorth和Hendry 2015； Hjorth和Burgess 2014； Van House等人，2005）。摄影与死亡一直有着复杂的关系。本文着重研究移动设备如何通过令人烦恼的材料的广播，同时导致对自我的错误认识（Wendt，2015年）以及常见的关于创伤和悲伤的证据。在本文中，我们将重点关注在用户绝望的时光中移动设备的陪伴。在危机情况下使用移动设备会产生情感反应和使用。我们将通过案例研究来突出移动设备的功能，不仅提醒我们媒体一直是社交性的，但是移动媒体正在挑战如何由政治和个人以及两者之间的道德调解构成社会。将探讨这种新型目击者所构成的道德，心理，道德和生存挑战。