Mobile Technology and Place

• Main Authors: Wilken, Rowan, Goggin, Gerard
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2012; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge 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

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...