Mobile lives
Subtitle: self, excess and nature
By: by Anthony Elliott and John Urry.
Contributors: Urry, John.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780415480208; 9780415480222; 9780203887042
Subjects: Transportation -- Social aspects; Civilization, Modern; Information technology -- Social aspects; Sociology -- Philosophy; Social sciences -- Philosophy
Description: In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinary lives. The authors develop their arguments through an analysis of various sectors of mobile lives: networks, new digital technologies, consumerism, ...
Table of contents: title: Mobile lives : a step too far?; title: New technologies, new mobilities; title: Networks and inequalitites; title: The globals and their mobilities; title: Mobile relationships : intimacy at-a-distance; title: Consuming to excess; title: Contested futures.