Mobile methods

Mobile methods

by Büscher, Monika Urry, John Witchger, Katian

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In the twenty-first century, more than ever, everything and everybody seems to be on the move. Global flows of people, goods, food, money, information, services and media images are forming an intensely mobile background to everyday life. Social scientists, too, are on the move, seeking new analytical purchase on these important aspects of the social world by trying to move with, and to be moved by, the fleeting, distributed, multiple, non-causal, sensory, emotional and kinaesthetic. Mobile Met…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Mobile methods / edited by Monika Büscher, John Urry and Katian Witchger.

Summary

In the twenty-first century, more than ever, everything and everybody seems to be on the move. Global flows of people, goods, food, money, information, services and media images are forming an intensely mobile background to everyday life. Social scientists, too, are on the move, seeking new analytical purchase on these important aspects of the social world by trying to move with, and to be moved by, the fleeting, distributed, multiple, non-causal, sensory, emotional and kinaesthetic. Mobile Methods addresses the challenges and opportunities of researching mobile pheno.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780415492416, 0415492416, 9780415492423, 0415492424, 9780203879900, 0203879902
  • oclc:on1032363303
  • LC Classification:H62
  • Dewey Decimal:330.72/2

Table of Contents

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; 1 Introduction: Mobile methods; 2 Any mermaids?: Early postcard mobilities; 3 On becoming 'la sombra/the shadow'; 4 Choreographies of leisure mobilities; 5 Mobilities of welfare: The case of social work; 6 Connectivity, collaboration, search; 7 Travel Remedy Kit: Interventions into train lines and passenger times; 8 Mobile, experimental, public; 9 Reassembling fragmented geographies; 10 Studying mobile video telephony; 11 Mobile positioning; Index.

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Subjects

Mouvement -- Philosophie Movement (Philosophy) Sciences sociales -- Recherche Social change Social sciences -- Research

Writers

Büscher, Monika Urry, John Witchger, Katian

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