Mobilities Network C. Howard Being where? Mobile inter-placing in the age of digital Ge-stell
Channel: e socsci
Date: 02/12/2016

This talk explores some of the meanings and implications of mobile technologies and 21st Century media. Drawing on research on ‘around the world travellers,’ it focuses on the role the internet and mobile technologies play in mediating embodied perceptions and performances of place. Based on a phenomenological understanding of place and the body, an analysis of how mobile technologies allow human beings to extend their corporeal presence across “planetary landscapes” is performed. Facilitated by contemporary media and mobility infrastructures, it suggests that digitally equipped travellers are relationally “inter-placed.” With this concept the talk aims to illustrate how virtual mobility overlaps with corporeal mobilities.

Christopher Howard lectures virtually in Chaminade University, USA, and is presenting virtually from Wellington, NZ.