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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967153303321

Titolo

Mobile technology and place / / edited by Rowan Wilken and Gerard Goggin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

0-203-12755-2

1-136-46335-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture ; ; 9

Altri autori (Persone)

GogginGerard <1964->

WilkenRowan

Disciplina

621.382

Soggetti

Cell phones

Mobile communication systems

Migration, Internal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Place8. 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

Sommario/riassunto

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 technologies come into focus, intersect, and interact. Given the far-reaching impact of contemporary



mobile technology use - and given the lasting importance of the concept and experiences of place - this book will appeal to a wide range of scholars in media and cultural studies, sociology, and phi