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Author Bscher, Monika

Title Mobile Methods
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; 1 Introduction: Mobile methods; 2 Any mermaids?: Early postcard mobilities; 3 On becoming 'la sombra/the shadow'; 4 Choreographies of leisure mobilities; 5 Mobilities of welfare: The case of social work; 6 Connectivity, collaboration, search; 7 Travel Remedy Kit: Interventions into train lines and passenger times; 8 Mobile, experimental, public; 9 Reassembling fragmented geographies; 10 Studying mobile video telephony; 11 Mobile positioning; Index
Summary In the twenty-first century, everything and everybody seems to be on the move. Global flows of people, goods, food, money, information, services and media images are form an intensely mobile background to everyday life. This book addresses the challenges and opportunities of researching mobile phenomena
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Subject Social sciences -- Research.
Social change.
Movement (Philosophy)
Communication -- Social aspects -- Research
Human geography -- Research
Communication -- Social aspects -- Research
Human geography -- Research
Movement (Philosophy)
Social change
Social sciences -- Research
Form Electronic book
Author Urry, John
Witchger, Katian
ISBN 9780203879900
0203879902