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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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Author:   David Morley (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781405192019

ISBN 10:   1405192011
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Redefining Communications 1 Part I The Return of Geopolitics 19 1 Communications, Transport, and Territory 21 2 Constituting Europe: Empires, Nations, and Techno]zones 37 Part II Reconceptualizing Communications: Mobilities and Geographies 57 3 Sedentarism, Nomadology, and “New Mobilities” 59 4 Disaggregating Mobilities: Zoning, Exclusion, and Containment 77 5 Geography, Topography, and Topology: Networks and Infrastructures 95 6 The Virtual and the Actual: Being There, Disembodiment, and Deterritorialization 113 Part III The Mobility of People, Information, and Commodities: Case Studies in Communications Geography 131 7 Migration: Changing Paradigms, Embodied Mobilities, and Material Practices 133 8 Mobile Communications and Ubiquitous Connectivity: Technologies of Transformation? 159 9 Containerization as Globalization: The Mobility of Commodities 199 Index 233

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In sum, this book delivers a rich and nuanced illumination of the impact of the inseparable material and virtual dimensions of media and communications in our contemporary world. -- Mobile Media and Communication Volume 8 (1) 2020 The book weaves together perspectives on communication, mobility, territory and transport from various disciplines and offers a new and broader theoretical framework... historicizing and culturally contextualising communications, which will deepen and enrich readers` understanding of technologies and mobilities in the contemporary world - European Journal of Cultural Studies, First Published 13 Jan 2020

"“In sum, this book delivers a rich and nuanced illumination of the impact of the inseparable material and virtual dimensions of media and communications in our contemporary world.” -- Mobile Media and Communication Volume 8 (1) 2020 The book ""weaves together perspectives on communication, mobility, territory and transport from various disciplines"" and "" offers a new and broader theoretical framework... historicizing and culturally contextualising communications, which will deepen and enrich readers` understanding of technologies and mobilities in the contemporary world"" – European Journal of Cultural Studies, First Published 13 Jan 2020"

Author Information

David Morley is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. His work has been translated into 22 languages, and his publications include Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies (1992), Home Territories: Media, Mobility, and Identity (2000), and Media, Modernity and Technology: The Geography of the New (2006). He serves on the editorial/advisory boards of a number of journals, including Cultural Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Television and New Media.

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