Communications and Mobility

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<p><i>Communications and Mobility</i> is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21<sup>st</sup> century with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the mobile phone, the migrant, and the container box.</p><ul><li>Urges scholars in media and communication to return to broader conceptions of the field that include mobility of all kindsinformation, people, and commodities</li><li>Embraces perspectives from media studies, science and technology studies, sociology, media anthropology, and cultural geography</li><li>Discusses ideas of virtual and embodied mobility, network geographies, de-territorialization, sedentarism, nomadology, connectivity, containment, and exclusion</li><li>Integrates the often-neglected transport studies into contemporary communication studies and theories of globalization</li></ul>

Autorenportrait

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

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