Mobile methods

by Büscher, Monika Urry, John Witchger, Katian

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In the twenty-first century, everything and everybody seems to be on the move. Global flows of people, goods, food, money, information, services and media images are form an intensely mobile background to everyday life. This book addresses the challenges and opportunities of researching mobile phenomena.

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

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Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 206 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780203879900, 0203879902, 9781134007110, 1134007116, 9781134007066, 113400706X, 9781134007103, 1134007108
oclc:ocn671650903
LC Classification:H62
Dewey Decimal:330.72/2

1. Introduction: mobile methods / Monika Büscher, John Urry and Katian Witchger -- 2. Any mermaids? : early postcard mobilities / Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall -- 3. On becoming 'la sombra/the shadow' / Paola Jirón -- 4. Choreographies of leisure mobilities / Michael Haldrup -- 5. Mobilities of welfare: the case of social work / Harry Ferguson -- 6. Connectivity, collaboration, search / Jennie Germann Molz -- 7. Travel remedy kit : interventions into train lines and passenger times / Laura Watts and Glenn Lyons -- 8. Mobile, experimental, public / Monika Büscher [and others] -- 9. Reassembling fragmented geographies / Lorenza Mondada -- 10. Studying mobile video telephony / Julien Morel and Christian Licoppe -- 11. Mobile positioning / Rein Ahas.

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference Electronic books Mouvement -- Philosophie Movement (Philosophy) Sciences sociales -- Recherche Social change Social sciences -- Research