Research Catalog

Title

Media, place and mobility / Shaun Moores.

Author

Moores, Shaun.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Description

128 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Key concerns in media studies

Alternative Title

Media, place & mobility

Subject

• Mass media > Social aspects
• Mass media and technology > Social aspects
• Information technology > Social aspects
• Mobile communication systems > Social aspects
• Human geography > Social aspects
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
• PERFORMING ARTS / General

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- The Situational Geography of Social Life -- When Space Feels Thoroughly Familiar -- Forms of Dwelling in a World of Flux -- Conclusion: Non-Media-Centric Media Studies -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

9780230244634 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012009001

OCLC

760977181

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library