Communications and Mobility: The Migrant, the Mobile Phone, and the Container Box

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

The book's first two sections outline the author's theoretical and conceptual agenda and reframe key concepts within media and communication in light of new mobilities and contemporary geographies. From the Back Cover Communications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21st century with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the migrant, the mobile phone, and the container box. Drawing together the North American and European traditions of materialist communications studies, this book embraces a wide range of perspectives from media studies, science and technology studies, sociology, transport studies, media anthropology, and cultural geography. . It urges scholars in media and communication to return to broader conceptions of the field that include mobility of all kinds, including information, people, and com

David Morley is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. His work has been translated into 22 languages, and his publications include Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies (1992), Home Territories: Media, Mobility, and Identity (2000), and Media, Modernity and Technology: The Geography of the New (2006). He serves on the editorial/advisory boards o