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 philosophy of technology.
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In sum, this book is a prime resource and excellent initial investigation of one of the most basic concepts for mobile media studies.Oliver Leistert, Mobile Media & Communication
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PART I Theorizing Place and Mobiles |
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1 Mobilizing Place: Conceptual Currents and Controversies |
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2 The Place of Mobility: Technology, Connectivity, and Individualization |
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3 Topologies of Human-Mobile Assemblages |
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PART II Media, Publics, and Place-Making |
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4 When Urban Public Places Become "Hybrid Ecologies": Proximity-based Game Encounters in Dragon Quest 9 in France and Japan |
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5 The Urban Dynamics of Net Localities: How Mobile and Location-Aware Technologies Are Transforming Places |
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6 The Real Estate of the Trained-Up Self: (Or is this England?) |
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PART III Urbanity, Rurality, and the Scene of Mobiles |
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7 (Putting) Mobile Technologies in Their Place: A Geographical Perspective |
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8 Still Mobile: A Case Study on Mobility, Home, and Being Away in Shanghai |
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9 Connection and Inspiration: Phenomenology, Mobile Communications, Place |
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PART IV Bodies, Screens, and Relations of Place |
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10 Going Wireless: Disengaging the Ethical Life |
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11 Parerga of the Third Screen: Mobile Media, Place, and Presence |
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12 Encoding Place: The Politics of Mobile Location Technologies |
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13 The Infosphere, the Geosphere, and the Mirror: The Geomedia-based Normative Renegotiations of Body and Place |
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| List of Contributors |
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Gerard Goggin is Professor of Media and Communications in the Department of Media and Communications, the University of Sydney. He is widely published on the social and cultural aspects of mobiles and Internet, with books including New Technologies and the Media (2012), Global Mobile Media (2011), Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media (2009), Internationalizing Internet Studies (2009), Cell Phone Culture (2006), Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2005), and Digital Disability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
Rowan Wilken is Lecturer in Media & Communication, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He is author of a number of articles that examine the relationship between place and media. His present research interests include digital technologies and culture, mobile and locative media, old and new media, and theories and practices of everyday life. He is author of Teletechnologies, Place & Community (Routledge, 2011).
