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Communications and Mobility: The Migrant, the Mobile Phone, and the Container Box
David Morley
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Description for Communications and Mobility: The Migrant, the Mobile Phone, and the Container Box
Paperback. Communications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21st century with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the mobile phone, the migrant, and the container box. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFCD; PDR; UD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Communications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21st century with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the mobile phone, the migrant, and the container box.
- Urges scholars in media and communication to return to broader conceptions of the field that include mobility of all kinds—information, people, and commodities
- Embraces perspectives from media studies, science and technology studies, sociology, media anthropology, and cultural geography
- Discusses ideas of virtual and embodied mobility, network geographies, de-territorialization, sedentarism, nomadology, connectivity, containment, and exclusion
- Integrates the often-neglected transport studies into contemporary communication studies and theories of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405192002
SKU
V9781405192002
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About David Morley
David Morley is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. His work has been translated into 22 languages, and his publications include Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies (1992), Home Territories: Media, Mobility, and Identity (2000), and Media, Modernity and Technology: The Geography of the New (2006). He serves on the editorial/advisory boards of a number of journals, ... Read more
Reviews for Communications and Mobility: The Migrant, the Mobile Phone, and the Container Box
“In sum, this book delivers a rich and nuanced illumination of the impact of the inseparable material and virtual dimensions of media and communications in our contemporary world.”
Mobile Media and Communication Volume 8 (1) 2020 The book "weaves together perspectives on communication, mobility, territory and transport from various disciplines" and " offers a new ... Read more
Mobile Media and Communication Volume 8 (1) 2020 The book "weaves together perspectives on communication, mobility, territory and transport from various disciplines" and " offers a new ... Read more