Gebundenes Buch

Mobility and Locative Media

Mobile Communication in Hybrid Spaces

Herausgeber: De Souza E Silva, Adriana; Sheller, Mimi

Beschreibung

This edited collection explores the intersection of mobility, mobile communication, and locative media. The chapters in this volume address the many transformations taking place in mobile sociality through the appropriation of location-aware technologies. Mobility scholars are in dialogue with mobile communication and locative media scholars.

Autor

Adriana de Souza e Silva is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University (NCSU), affiliated faculty at the Digital Games Research Center, and a faculty member of the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) program at NCSU. Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and directs the Center for Mobilities Research & Policy at Drexel University. Her research combines Caribbean studies, mobilities theory, and mobile locative media. Author of four monographs on the Caribbean, she is co-editor of Tourism Mobilities (2004), Mobile technologies of the city (2006), The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (2014), and L.A. Re.Play issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac (2014).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781138778139
• ISBN-10: 1138778133
• Artikelnr.: 40551366