Connectivity, Networks And Flows: Conceptualizing Contemporary Communications - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 157273857X ISBN 13 : 9781572738577

Editeur : Hampton Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book offers its readers a critical engagement with three key concepts for social and communication theory today - connectivity, networks and flows. The contributors are committed to conceptualizing contemporary communications in a changing world. They point to globalizing and deterritorializing processes, and to the increasing significance of mobilities in late modern existence - yet this is also a book about the continuing importance of locality, senses of place and physically copresent interaction in daily living. The book combines theoretical reflection with analysis of specific media and cultural practices. Featured examples of such practices include uses of mobile phones and the Internet, activities of online (and offline) working and socializing, and constructions of liveness and immediacy in electronically mediated communication. The book will be of particular interest to researchers and students in communications, media and cultural studies, sociology and social theory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hampton Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 157273857X
• ISBN 13: 9781572738577
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Éditeur: Hepp Andreas, Krotz Friedrich, Moores Shaun, Winter Carsten
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible