Mobilities, networks, geographies
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Mobilities, networks, geographies
（Transport and society）
Ashgate, c2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Transfered to digital printing in 2010
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- Chapter 1 Researching Networks and Travel: An Introduction
- Chapter 2 Social Networks
- Chapter 3 Meetings and Networks
- Chapter 4 Mobilities
- Chapter 5 Research Design
- Chapter 6 Geographies of Networks and Mobilities
- Chapter 7 Travel and Meetings
- Chapter 8 Coordinating Networks and Travel
- Chapter 9 Research and Policy Futures
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