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Communications and mobility : the migrant, the mobile phone, and the container box /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.