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Mobile Lives (9780415480222) by Elliott; Anthony explores how everyday mobility reshapes identity, culture, and social interaction in a rapidly connected world. This work investigates the ways people navigate urban and digital landscapes, offering a nuanced account of movement as a central facet of contemporary life.
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The book traces the interplay between physical travel, mobile technology, and personal experience, examining how smartphones, apps, and transportation networks reconfigure routines, relationships, and belonging. It blends ethnography, sociological analysis, and cultural critique to reveal how mobility patterns reflect and reinforce broader power dynamics, inequalities, and pragmatic adaptations. Through case studies and comparative perspectives, it illuminates the tactile realities of moving through space and the virtual spaces that accompany those journeys.
About the author
Elliott and Anthony (as primary contributors) bring decades of research in mobility, urban studies, and digital culture, with a particular emphasis on how everyday travel shapes social life. Their scholarly work combines rigorous fieldwork with theoretical breadth, translating complex concepts into accessible insights. The authors’ collaborative approach reflects a commitment to interdisciplinary perspectives and richly detailed examinations of contemporary movement.
In brief
Mobile Lives offers a compelling synthesis of empiricism and theory to illuminate how mobility technologies and patterns redefine identity, community, and power in the modern era.

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2010, ISBN: 0415480221
[EAN: 9780415480222], Neubuch, [PU: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom], Language: English. Brand new Book. How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility … More...

ISBN: 9780415480222
How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21stcentury?… More...

ISBN: 9780415480222
How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century… More...

ISBN: 9780415480222
How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21stcentury?… More...

ISBN: 9780415480222
Paperback, [PU: Taylor & Francis Ltd], This book sets out, with remarkable clarity and insight, the contradictions of mobile societies and of mobile lives. Such mobilities are full of dil… More...
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About the work
Mobile Lives (9780415480222) by Elliott; Anthony explores how everyday mobility reshapes identity, culture, and social interaction in a rapidly connected world. This work investigates the ways people navigate urban and digital landscapes, offering a nuanced account of movement as a central facet of contemporary life.
Summary
The book traces the interplay between physical travel, mobile technology, and personal experience, examining how smartphones, apps, and transportation networks reconfigure routines, relationships, and belonging. It blends ethnography, sociological analysis, and cultural critique to reveal how mobility patterns reflect and reinforce broader power dynamics, inequalities, and pragmatic adaptations. Through case studies and comparative perspectives, it illuminates the tactile realities of moving through space and the virtual spaces that accompany those journeys.
About the author
Elliott and Anthony (as primary contributors) bring decades of research in mobility, urban studies, and digital culture, with a particular emphasis on how everyday travel shapes social life. Their scholarly work combines rigorous fieldwork with theoretical breadth, translating complex concepts into accessible insights. The authors’ collaborative approach reflects a commitment to interdisciplinary perspectives and richly detailed examinations of contemporary movement.
In brief
Mobile Lives offers a compelling synthesis of empiricism and theory to illuminate how mobility technologies and patterns redefine identity, community, and power in the modern era.
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780415480222
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0415480221
Hardcover
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Publishing year: 2010
Publisher: Anthony Elliott
208 Pages
Weight: 0,317 kg
Language: eng/Englisch
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ISBN/EAN: 9780415480222
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0-415-48022-1, 978-0-415-48022-2
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Book author: urry, elliott john, digital sociology, john lancaster
Book title: international sociology, mobile lives, international library, mobil live
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