Communications and mobility : the migrant, the mobile phone, and the container box / David Morley.
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...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Machine generated contents note: |t Technological Determinism and Contextualism -- |t Techno-Globalization: Nations and Regions -- |t Anthropologizing media Studes: Against EurAm-Centrism -- |t Decentering Mediated Modernities -- |t Cultural Presentism: Problems of History -- |t Histories of Speed-Up: Old Futures? -- |t Media Centrism and the Materiality of Communications -- |t Readers Guide -- |t Part One: The Return of Geopolitics -- |t Part Two: Reconcoptualizing Communications: Mobilities and Geographies -- |t Part Three: The Mobility of People, Information and Commodities: Case Studies in Communications Geography -- |t Back to the Front -- |t Notes -- |g 1. |t Communications, Transport, and Territory -- |t Introduction -- |t Power of a Metaphor -- |t Passengers, Readers, Drivers and Spectators -- |t Communications and Geography -- European and North American Traditions -- |t Communications, Transport and Mobilities: Intersection -- |t Material and Virtual Networks -- |t Multidimensionality/Simultaneity of Complex Networks -- |t Notes -- |g 2. |t Constituting Europe: Empires, Nations, and Techno-zones -- |t Communications and Empire: Telegraphs, Cables and Networks -- |t Improving Circulation: Building the Nation with Canals, Roads and Railways -- |t Europe as the "Pivot of History"? Constructing the Eurozone -- |t Transporting Europeans: High Speed Networking -- |t Eurostructures: Airports, Bridges and Borders -- |t Europe as Techno-Zone: The Politics of Technology -- |t Walls and Borders: Europe's Edges and Others -- |t Beyond Europe: Untold Stories from the "B-Zone" -- |t Europe's Troubled Prospects -- |t Notes -- |g 3. |t Sedentarism, Nomadology, and "New Mobilities" -- |t Introduction -- |t Community, Place and Mobility: Sendentarist Metaphysics -- |t Nomadology: Frictionless Flux? -- |t Beyond the Sednetarist/Nomadic Binary -- |t Migrancy as Metaphor -- |t "New Mobilities" Theory -- |t Mobility Systems and the History of Time-Space Compression -- |t From the Railway System to Car System -- |t Questions of Periodization and Determinization -- |t Historical Perspectives: How New is Mobility -- |t Notes -- |g 4. |t Disaggregating Mobilities: Zoning, Exclusion, and Containment -- |t Introduction -- |t Relative Mobilities and the (Continued) Friction of Distance -- |t Transnational Mobilities: The Flow of Goods and the Control of Persons -- |t Contained Mobility -- |t Contemporary Borders: The Transnational Ban-Opticon -- |t Metaphorical and Actual Mobilities: Fast and Slow Lanes -- |t Consigned to the Perimeters: Zoning the Nation -- |t Aeromobilities: Above the Madding Crowd -- |t Hierachies of Mobility and Connexity -- |t On the Bus: The Losers' Vehicle of Last Resort -- |t Politics of Waiting -- |t Techno-Prosthetic Mobility as a Condition of Citizenship -- |t Visible and Invisible Geographies -- |t Notes -- |g 5. |t Geography, Topography, and Topology: Networks and Infrastructures -- |t Nearness and Farness: Geographical Proximity and topological Connexity -- |t Ideology of Networks: Deterritorialization? -- |t Liquid Geographies -- |t Infrastructures, Discourses and Materialities -- |t Net Geography: Digital Districts -- |t Network Structures and Hierarchies -- |t Against Globalized Models: Regional and National Specificities -- |t Limits of Geographical Metaphors -- |t Notes -- |g 6. |t Virtual and the Actual: Being There, Disembodiment, and Deterritorialization -- |t Being There: Questions of Place -- |t Epistemological and Ontological Questions: Stability and Motion -- |t Virtual, The Material, The Actual and The Real -- |t Questions of Mediation -- |t Disembodiment and Representation -- |t Net Geography and Locative Media -- |t Virtual Trust and the "Compulsions of Proximity" -- |t Reflexivity and Misunderstanding: Thick and Thin Modalities of Interaction -- |t Communications: Hierarchies of Preference and Modes of Symbiosis -- |t Teleparenting: A Test Case of Long Distance Relationship Maintenance -- |t Notes -- |g 7. |t Migration: Changing Paradigms, Embodied Mobilities, and Material Practices -- |t Introduction -- |g 1. |t Conceptualizing Migrancy -- |t Migrancy as Ontological Disruption: Whose Perspective? -- |t Assimilating, Belonging, Returning: The Case of the United Kingdom -- |t Typologies and Archeologies of Migrancy -- |t Place Polygamy and the "Relativiation" of Community -- |g 2. |t Structures of Feeling: Affect and Experience -- |t Being (in more than one) There -- |t Multisite Households and "Absent Presences -- |t Translocal Subjectivities: Networked Feelings -- |t Love, Loss and Money: The Sadness of Geography -- |t Material and Virtual Modes of Circulation -- |g 3. |t Migrant Perspectives: Lines of Flight -- |t Desperate Straits -- |t Flows of Capital, People and Data -- |t Geopolitics from Below: Against Victim Perspectives -- |t Migration, Imagination and Ingenuity -- |t Fortress Europe and the (Televized) Return of the Medieval Pilgrims -- |t Notes -- |g 8. |t Mobile Communications and Ubiquitous Connectivity: Technologies of Transformation? -- |g 1. |t Mobile Phone: Emblem of Liquid Modernity -- |t Powers of the Virtual: Technologies, Voices and Publics -- |t Technology and the Social -- |g 2. |t Impacts and Influences? -- |t What Does the Mobile Phone Do? -- |t From Technological Effects to "Affordances -- |t Technologies of Encapsulation and Secession -- |t Connected Presence, Perpetual Contact: The Narrowing of Social Bonds? -- |g 3. |t Beyond the West -- |t Cross-Cultural Comparative Perspectives -- |t Technology, Tradition and Superstition -- |t Third World Adaptations of the Mobile: Beyond Marginality -- |t Cultural Contexts of Mobility: The Particulariteis of Mobil Phone Use in Nomadic Cultures -- |g 4. |t Mobile Bodies and Mobile Technologies -- |t Migrant and the Mobile Phone -- |t Migrants as Early Adopters: "Lifelines" and Budgetary Priorities -- |t Media Logics: Mediations, Affordances and Propensities -- |t Medium Specificity and Media Repertoires: "Polymedia" -- |t Virtual and Actual Proximities -- |t Notes -- |g 9. |t Containerization as Globalization: The Mobility of Commodities -- |t Introduction -- |g 1. |t Box that Changed the World? -- |t Shipping Matters: The Material Infrastructure of Globalization -- |t From Break-Built to Containerization -- |t Invisible Infrastructures and Mobile Metaphors -- |t Dramatizing Globalization: BBC.co.uk/thebox31 -- |t Box Becalmed in a Global Downturn -- |g 2. |t Politics of Standardization -- |t Convergence Technologies -- |t Standardization as Permanent RevolutiOn? -- |t Regional Dynamics in the Global Economy -- |t Contradictions of Scale -- |t Technological Innovation and Regulatory Contexts -- |g 3. |t Contradictions of Containerization -- |t From Transport to Logistics -- |t Piracy and Preemptive Securitization -- |t Circulation of Goods and Bads -- |t Repurposing the Box -- |t Notes. |
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