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Proximity, Distance, Comobility <ÌÇÐÄVlog class="entry-title">Proximity, Distance, Comobility 9th November 2016 Southern, J. (2012). Comobility: How Proximity and Distance Travel Together in Locative Media. Canadian Journal for Communications, 37(1), 75–91. Chaired by Monika Buscher. Abstract Mobile phones are becoming increasingly location-aware: they use and...
Mobility Politics <ÌÇÐÄVlog class="entry-title">Mobility Politics 26th October 2016 Cresswell, T. 2010. Towards a politics of mobility. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28(1): 17-31. Chaired by Stephanie Bayne Sodero. Abstract This paper proposes an approach to mobility that takes both historical mobilities and forms of...
Mobilising the new mobilities paradigm <ÌÇÐÄVlog class="entry-title">Mobilising the new mobilities paradigm 12th October 2016 Sheller, M., & Urry, J. (2016). Mobilizing the new mobilities paradigm. Applied Mobilities Online first. Chaired by Monika Buscher. Abstract A new mobilities paradigm emerged a decade or so ago in the context of significant theoretical shifts,...
What’s mobile: The mobile favela <ÌÇÐÄVlog class="entry-title">What’s mobile: The mobile favela   Camila Moraes presents her ongoing research on Brazilian favelas. She is concerned with the mobilization of these spaces as tourist attractions through various images and objects.     Favelas of Rio de Janeiro became a product in view of the...