ABSTRACT

An international roster of contributors come together in this comprehensive volume to examine the complex interactions between mobile media technologies and issues of place. Balancing philosophical reflection with empirical analysis, this book examines the specific contexts in which place and mobile technologies come into focus, intersect, and interact. Given the far-reaching impact of contemporary mobile technology use – and given the lasting importance of the concept and experiences of place – this book will appeal to a wide range of scholars in media and cultural studies, sociology, and philosophy of technology.

part |54 pages

Theorizing Place and Mobiles

chapter |23 pages

Mobilizing Place

Conceptual Currents and Controversies

chapter |13 pages

The Place of Mobility

Technology, Connectivity, and Individualization

part |66 pages

Media, Publics, and Place-Making

chapter |32 pages

When Urban Public Places Become “Hybrid Ecologies”

Proximity-based Game Encounters in Dragon Quest 9 in France and Japan

chapter |15 pages

The Urban Dynamics of Net Localities

How Mobile and Location-Aware Technologies Are Transforming Places 1

chapter |17 pages

The Real Estate of the Trained-Up Self

(Or is this England?)

part |51 pages

Urbanity, Rurality, and the Scene of Mobiles

chapter |17 pages

Still Mobile

A Case Study on Mobility, Home, and Being Away in Shanghai

chapter |15 pages

Connection and Inspiration

Phenomenology, Mobile Communications, Place

part |54 pages

Bodies, Screens, and Relations of Place

chapter |6 pages

Going Wireless

Disengaging the Ethical Life

chapter |17 pages

Parerga of the Third Screen

Mobile Media, Place, and Presence

chapter |15 pages

Encoding Place

The Politics of Mobile Location Technologies

chapter |14 pages

The Infosphere, the Geosphere, and the Mirror

The Geomedia-Based Normative Renegotiations of Body and Place