Communications and Mobility

<p><i>Communications and Mobility</i> is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21^st century with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the mobile phone, the migrant, and the container box.</p> <ul> <li>Urges scholars in media and communication to return to broader conceptions of the field that include mobility of all kinds—information, people, and commodities</li> <li>Embraces perspectives from media studies, science and technology studies, sociology, media anthropology, and cultural geography</li> <li>Discusses ideas of virtual and embodied mobility, network geographies, de-territorialization, sedentarism, nomadology, connectivity, containment, and exclusion</li> <li>Integrates the often-neglected transport studies into contemporary communication studies and theories of globalization</li> </ul>