Mobile Technologies of the City by Mimi Sheller
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.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415655606 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415655609 |
| Title | Mobile Technologies of the City |
| Author | Mimi Sheller |
| Series | Networked Cities Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2012-07-13 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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