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1 online resource |
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Machine generated contents note: Technological Determinism and Contextualism -- Techno-Globalization: Nations and Regions -- Anthropologizing media Studes: Against EurAm-Centrism -- Decentering Mediated Modernities -- Cultural Presentism: Problems of History -- Histories of Speed-Up: Old Futures? -- Media Centrism and the Materiality of Communications -- Readers Guide -- Part One: The Return of Geopolitics -- Part Two: Reconcoptualizing Communications: Mobilities and Geographies -- Part Three: The Mobility of People, Information and Commodities: Case Studies in Communications Geography -- Back to the Front -- Notes -- 1. Communications, Transport, and Territory -- Introduction -- Power of a Metaphor -- Passengers, Readers, Drivers and Spectators -- Communications and Geography -- European and North American Traditions -- Communications, Transport and Mobilities: Intersection -- Material and Virtual Networks -- Multidimensionality/Simultaneity of Complex Networks -- Notes -- 2. Constituting Europe: Empires, Nations, and Techno-zones -- Communications and Empire: Telegraphs, Cables and Networks -- Improving Circulation: Building the Nation with Canals, Roads and Railways -- Europe as the "Pivot of History"? Constructing the Eurozone -- Transporting Europeans: High Speed Networking -- Eurostructures: Airports, Bridges and Borders -- Europe as Techno-Zone: The Politics of Technology -- Walls and Borders: Europe's Edges and Others -- Beyond Europe: Untold Stories from the "B-Zone" -- Europe's Troubled Prospects -- Notes -- 3. Sedentarism, Nomadology, and "New Mobilities" -- Introduction -- Community, Place and Mobility: Sendentarist Metaphysics -- Nomadology: Frictionless Flux? -- Beyond the Sednetarist/Nomadic Binary -- Migrancy as Metaphor -- "New Mobilities" Theory -- Mobility Systems and the History of Time-Space Compression -- From the Railway System to Car System -- Questions of Periodization and Determinization -- Historical Perspectives: How New is Mobility -- Notes -- 4. Disaggregating Mobilities: Zoning, Exclusion, and Containment -- Introduction -- Relative Mobilities and the (Continued) Friction of Distance -- Transnational Mobilities: The Flow of Goods and the Control of Persons -- Contained Mobility -- Contemporary Borders: The Transnational Ban-Opticon -- Metaphorical and Actual Mobilities: Fast and Slow Lanes -- Consigned to the Perimeters: Zoning the Nation -- Aeromobilities: Above the Madding Crowd -- Hierachies of Mobility and Connexity -- On the Bus: The Losers' Vehicle of Last Resort -- Politics of Waiting -- Techno-Prosthetic Mobility as a Condition of Citizenship -- Visible and Invisible Geographies -- Notes -- 5. Geography, Topography, and Topology: Networks and Infrastructures -- Nearness and Farness: Geographical Proximity and topological Connexity -- Ideology of Networks: Deterritorialization? -- Liquid Geographies -- Infrastructures, Discourses and Materialities -- Net Geography: Digital Districts -- Network Structures and Hierarchies -- Against Globalized Models: Regional and National Specificities -- Limits of Geographical Metaphors -- Notes -- 6. Virtual and the Actual: Being There, Disembodiment, and Deterritorialization -- Being There: Questions of Place -- Epistemological and Ontological Questions: Stability and Motion -- Virtual, The Material, The Actual and The Real -- Questions of Mediation -- Disembodiment and Representation -- Net Geography and Locative Media -- Virtual Trust and the "Compulsions of Proximity" -- Reflexivity and Misunderstanding: Thick and Thin Modalities of Interaction -- Communications: Hierarchies of Preference and Modes of Symbiosis -- Teleparenting: A Test Case of Long Distance Relationship Maintenance -- Notes -- 7. Migration: Changing Paradigms, Embodied Mobilities, and Material Practices -- Introduction -- 1. Conceptualizing Migrancy -- Migrancy as Ontological Disruption: Whose Perspective? -- Assimilating, Belonging, Returning: The Case of the United Kingdom -- Typologies and Archeologies of Migrancy -- Place Polygamy and the "Relativiation" of Community -- 2. Structures of Feeling: Affect and Experience -- Being (in more than one) There -- Multisite Households and "Absent Presences -- Translocal Subjectivities: Networked Feelings -- Love, Loss and Money: The Sadness of Geography -- Material and Virtual Modes of Circulation -- 3. Migrant Perspectives: Lines of Flight -- Desperate Straits -- Flows of Capital, People and Data -- Geopolitics from Below: Against Victim Perspectives -- Migration, Imagination and Ingenuity -- Fortress Europe and the (Televized) Return of the Medieval Pilgrims -- Notes -- 8. Mobile Communications and Ubiquitous Connectivity: Technologies of Transformation? -- 1. Mobile Phone: Emblem of Liquid Modernity -- Powers of the Virtual: Technologies, Voices and Publics -- Technology and the Social -- 2. Impacts and Influences? -- What Does the Mobile Phone Do? -- From Technological Effects to "Affordances -- Technologies of Encapsulation and Secession -- Connected Presence, Perpetual Contact: The Narrowing of Social Bonds? -- 3. Beyond the West -- Cross-Cultural Comparative Perspectives -- Technology, Tradition and Superstition -- Third World Adaptations of the Mobile: Beyond Marginality -- Cultural Contexts of Mobility: The Particulariteis of Mobil Phone Use in Nomadic Cultures -- 4. Mobile Bodies and Mobile Technologies -- Migrant and the Mobile Phone -- Migrants as Early Adopters: "Lifelines" and Budgetary Priorities -- Media Logics: Mediations, Affordances and Propensities -- Medium Specificity and Media Repertoires: "Polymedia" -- Virtual and Actual Proximities -- Notes -- 9. Containerization as Globalization: The Mobility of Commodities -- Introduction -- 1. Box that Changed the World? -- Shipping Matters: The Material Infrastructure of Globalization -- From Break-Built to Containerization -- Invisible Infrastructures and Mobile Metaphors -- Dramatizing Globalization: BBC.co.uk/thebox31 -- Box Becalmed in a Global Downturn -- 2. Politics of Standardization -- Convergence Technologies -- Standardization as Permanent RevolutiOn? -- Regional Dynamics in the Global Economy -- Contradictions of Scale -- Technological Innovation and Regulatory Contexts -- 3. Contradictions of Containerization -- From Transport to Logistics -- Piracy and Preemptive Securitization -- Circulation of Goods and Bads -- Repurposing the Box -- Notes |
| 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 -- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Communication -- Technological innovations -- History
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Mass media -- Technological innovations -- History
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Telecommunication -- Technological innovations
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Mobile communication systems.
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Communication, International -- History
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Communication, International
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Communication -- Technological innovations
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Mass media -- Technological innovations
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Mobile communication systems
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Telecommunication -- Technological innovations
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781119371625 |
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1119371627 |
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9781119372080 |
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1119372089 |
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