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Communications and Mobility : The Migrant, the Mobile Phone, and the Container Box
by David Morley
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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9781405192002
- ISBN-10: 1405192003
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Publish Date: June 2017
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.8 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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