Media, place and mobility
By: Shaun Moores
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780230244634
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Social aspects; Human geography; Mass media and technology; Mass media; Mobile communication systems; Information technology; PERFORMING ARTS / General
Description: "Media, Place and Mobility offers a new understanding of media uses as place-making practices in everyday living. Drawing primarily on phenomenological perspectives, Shaun Moores focuses on the ways in which people inhabit physical and media environments, and he explores the bodily and technologically mediated mobilities that are involved in this activity of dwelling. His discussion includes many specific examples of mobility, from the manipulation of remote-control devices to the movements of walking and driving in the city or of getting around in online social spaces. Written in an accessible style, the book invites its readers to participate in the interdisciplinary adventure of non-media-centric media studies"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Preface and Acknowledgements; title: The Situational Geography of Social Life; title: When Space Feels Thoroughly Familiar; title: Forms of Dwelling in a World of Flux; title: Conclusion: Non-Media-Centric Media Studies; title: Bibliography; title: Index.