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

A unique, interdisciplinary exploration of mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21st century, this book delves into the lives of three iconic symbols of our era—migrants, mobile phones, and container boxes. Through extended case studies, it challenges scholars to reconsider broader conceptions of the media and communication field that encompass various forms of mobility, including information, people, and commodities.

Embracing perspectives from media studies, science and technology studies, sociology, media anthropology, and cultural geography, the book discusses ideas such as virtual and embodied mobility, network geographies, de-territorialization, sedentarism, nomadology, connectivity, containment, and exclusion. It also integrates often-neglected transport studies into contemporary communication studies and theories of globalization.

Published by Wiley-Blackwell on April 26, 2017, with the ISBN-13: 978-1119371625, this work offers a comprehensive analysis of how these key elements shape our understanding of mobility and communication in today’s world.