Communications and mobility : the migrant, the mobile phone, and the container box / David Morley.
By: Morley, David [author.]
Language: English Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2017]Description: pages cmContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781405192019 (cloth); 9781405192002 (pbk.); 9781119372080Subject(s): Communication -- Technological innovations -- History | Mass media -- Technological innovations -- History | Telecommunications -- Technological innovations | Mobile communication systems | Communication, International -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic booksDDC classification: 302.23 LOC classification: P96.T42 | M67 2017Online resources: Full text available at Wiley Online Library Click here to view Summary: 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 globalization| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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, including Cultural Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Television and New Media.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 globalization
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