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Mobile Technologies of the City Mimi Sheller

Mobile Technologies of the City By Mimi Sheller

Mobile Technologies of the City by Mimi Sheller

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Mobile communications technologies and urban transportation and surveillance systems worldwide are evolving and developing. This is one of the first studies to examine these phenomenon in relation to each other, in cities across three continents.

Mobile Technologies of the City Summary

Mobile Technologies of the City by Mimi Sheller

Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social exclusion and security across many urban contexts. This book brings together a carefully selected group of innovative case studies of these mobile technologies of the city, tracing the emergence of both new socio-technical practices of the city and of a new theoretical paradigm for mobilities research.

About Mimi Sheller

Mimi Sheller is Visiting Associate Professor at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, England. She is the author of Democracy After Slavery (2000) and Consuming the Caribbean (2003), and co-editor of Uprootings/Regroundings (2003) and Tourism Mobilitites (2004). She is also co-editor of the new Routledge journal Mobilities.

John Urry is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University. Recent books include Sociology beyond Societies (2000), The Tourist Gaze (1990/2002), Global Complexity (2003), Tourism Mobilities (co-edited; 2004), Automobilities (coedited; 2005). He is also co-editor of the new Routledge journal Mobilities.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Mobile Cities, Urban Mobilities Part 1: Mobilities and the Creation of Urban Spatial Form 2. The Linear City: Touring Vienna in the Nineteenth Century 3. Between the Physical and the Virtual: Connected Mobilities? 4. Urban Violence: Luxury in Made Space Part 2: Re-Configuring Co-Presence 5. Bypassing and WAPing: Reconfiguring Timetables for 'Real-Time' Mobility 6. Reshaping Patterns of Mobility and Exclusion? The Impact of Virtual Mobility upon Acesssibility, Mobility and Social Exclusion 7. Twin Towers and Amoy Gardens: Mobilities, Risks and Choices Part 3: Cultures of Infrastructure and Public Space 8. From Cafe to Parkbench: Wi-Fi and Technological Overflows in the City 9. ICTs and the Engineering of Encounters: A Case Study of the Development of a Mobile Game Based on the Geolocation of Terminals 10. Permeable Boundaries in the Software-Sorted Society: Surveillance and Differentiations of Mobility

Additional information

NPB9780415374347
9780415374347
0415374340
Mobile Technologies of the City by Mimi Sheller
Mimi Sheller
Networked Cities Series
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2006-02-23
208
N/A
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