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Mobilities, Networks, Geographies (Paperback)
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Mobilities, Networks, Geographies (Paperback)
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There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and
in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing
and videoconferencing. Such developments in communication, along
with a similar increase in physical travel and movement of goods
around the globe, reconfigure social networks by disconnecting and
reconnecting people in new ways. This original book puts forward
one of the first social science studies of the geographies of
social networks and related mobilities of travel, communications
and face-to-face meetings. The book examines five interdependent
mobilities that form and reform these geographies of networks and
travel in the contemporary world. These are: physical travel of
people for work, leisure, pleasure, migration and escape; physical
movement of objects delivered to producers, consumers and
retailers; imaginative travel elsewhere through images and memories
seen on texts, TV, computer screens and film; virtual travel on the
internet; and communicative travel through letters, cards,
telegrams, telephones, faxes, text messages and videoconferences.
In the book the authors examine the interconnections between these
different mobilities. They research how travel and social meetings
require systems of coordination using virtual and communicative
travel in-between physical travel and meetings. They argue that,
while it might be imagined that there would be less need of
physical meetings with improved technology, on the contrary,
scheduled visits and meetings have become highly significant. The
research shows that they are necessary to social life in the
contemporary world, both within business and, especially, within
families and friendships which are increasingly conducted at a
distance.
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