With illustrious instructors and researchers contributing to every chapter, Digital Geographies is the ideal textbook for courses concerning digital geographies, digital and new As digital technologies have become part of everyday life, mediating tas [...]

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Urban Mobility and the Smartphone: Transportation, Travel Behavior and Public Policy provides a global synthesis of the transformation of urban mobility by the smartphone, clarifying the definitions of new concepts and objects in mobility studies, ac [...]

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It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both. [...]

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The ‘mobile turn’ in human geography, sociology and cultural studies has resulted in a hitherto unparalleled focus on the critical role that mobility plays in conserving and regenerating society and culture. [...]

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Today we recognize that we have a different relationship to media technology—and to information more broadly—than we had even five years ago. We are connected to the news media, to our jobs, and to each other, 24 hours a day. [...]

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The optimism heralded by the end of the Cold War and the idea of an emerging borderless world was soon shadowed by conflicts, wars, terrorism, and new border walls. [...]

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This volume examines self-initiated expatriates (SIEs), the category of highly skilled people whose movement from one country to another is by choice. [...]

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The new ‘mobilities turn’ has become a powerful perspective in social theory. John Urry’s oeuvre has been very influential in the emergence of this new field and has had lasting impacts on many scholars. [...]

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La ville du XXe siècle a été profondément imprégnée par la logique automobile, car la voiture a véritablement révolutionné les possibilités individuelles de déplacement et fortement inspiré aménageurs, urbanistes et architectes, de la grande échelle [...]

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Au cours de la dernière décennie, l’usage du terme mobilité, porté par le mobility turn, s’est progressivement substitué à migration dans la sphère politique et dans la recherche sans que ce glissement conceptuel n’ait réellement fait l’objet d’un qu [...]

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