Media, Place and Mobility

Media, Place and Mobility offers a new understanding of media uses as place-making practices in everyday living. Drawing primarily on phenomenological perspectives, Shaun Moores focuses on the ways in which people inhabit physical and media environments, and he explores the bodily and technologically mediated mobilities that are involved in this activity of dwelling. His discussion includes many specific examples of mobility, from the manipulation of remote-control devices to the movements of walking and driving in the city or of getting around in online social spaces. Written in an accessible style, the book invites its readers to participate in the interdisciplinary adventure of non-media-centric media studies.

SHAUN MOORES is professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland, UK. He is the author or co-editor of six earlier books, including Media and Everyday Life in Modern Society (2000), Media/Theory (2005) and Connectivity, Networks and Flows (2008). Several of his publications have been translated into other languages.