Mobile Technology and Place

An international roster of contributors come together in this comprehensive volume to examine the complex interactions between mobile media technologies and issues of place. Balancing philosophical reflection with empirical analysis, this book examines the specific contexts in which place and mobile...

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Main Authors Wilken, Rowan, Goggin, Gerard
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Routledge 2012
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
SeriesRoutledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
Subjects
Cell phones
Communication sciences
Communication systems
Communications technology
Cultural Geography
Cultural Theory
Geographic mobility
Internal migration
Mass media
Mobile communication systems
Mobile phones
New Media
Place
Place (Philosophy)
Sociology of Science & Technology
Technology
Telecommunications
Portable DVD Player
Mobile Media
Mobile Communication
Ba Ling Hou
media
Vice Versa
Mobile Social Media
Hybrid Ecologies
Net Locality
Eric Laurier
Dense
Follow
Body Technology Relation
Location Aware Technologies
communication
Mobile Communication Technologies
Face To Face
Time Space Routines
eff
Civil Inattention
MSN
Telecommunication
diff
Dragon Quest
Game Encounters
technologies
Mobile Technology
ects
phone
Joshua Meyrowitz
erence
Google's Android Operating System
short
Handheld
device
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Mobile Technology and Place -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Theorizing Place and Mobiles -- 1. Mobilizing Place Conceptual Currents and Controversies -- 2. The Place of Mobility Technology, Connectivity, and Individualization -- 3. Topologies of Human-Mobile Assemblages -- Part II Media, Publics, and Place-Making -- 4. When Urban Public Places Become "Hybrid Ecologies" -- 5. The Urban Dynamics of Net Localities -- 6. The Real Estate of the Trained-Up Self -- Part III Urbanity, Rurality, and the Scene of Mobiles -- 7. (Putting) Mobile Technologies in Their Place -- 8. Still Mobile -- 9. Connection and Inspiration -- Part IV Bodies, Screens, and Relations of Place -- 10. Going Wireless -- 11. Parerga of the Third Screen -- 12. Encoding Place -- 13. The Infosphere, the Geosphere, and the Mirror -- List of Contributors -- Index