Communications and Mobility: The Migrant, the Mobile Phone, and the Container Box

David Morley

Apr 2017 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons

About this ebook

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 broader conceptions of the field that include mobility of all kinds—information, people, and commodities
• Embraces perspectives from media studies, science and technology studies, sociology, media anthropology, and cultural geography
• Discusses ideas of virtual and embodied mobility, network geographies, de-territorialization, sedentarism, nomadology, connectivity, containment, and exclusion
• Integrates the often-neglected transport studies into contemporary communication studies and theories of globalization

About the author

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