CHAPTER 1 Mobile Storytelling in an Age of Smartphones Max Schleser and Xiaoge Xu In examining and exploring the currents and trends of mobile story- telling, we shall also take a look at the historical developments of mobile media and mobile stories. Mobile media as such is not new. The Greeks (mid-eighth century BCE) and Romans used wax tables (43–410 AD) for This edited collection aims at sharing with its global audience the selected invaluable experience and insightful expertise in mobile storytelling presented at the inaugural International Mobile Storytelling Congress on 17–19 January 2020 at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. M. Schleser Department of Film and Animation, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia X. Xu (B ) University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China e-mail: xiaoge.xu@nottingham.edu.cn © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 M. Schleser and X. Xu (eds.), Mobile Storytelling in an Age of Smartphones, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87247-2_1 1