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This book develops and employs a new methodology Global Technography to investigate wireless mobility from a sociological and cultural perspective. It illustrates that technologies are created to perform roles to act in everyday life, and this demands an ethnography that can track the social performativity of technology in addition to that of human beings. The book is suitable for graduate and upper level undergraduate courses in methodology, communications, and cultural work dealing with globalization and new digital communications media.

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PublisherLang, Peter

ISBN-101433102935

ISBN-139781433102936

eBay Product ID (ePID)72500732

Product Key Features

Publication Year2009

Number of Pages193 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TypeTextbook

AuthorGrant Kien

SeriesIntersections in Communications and Culture Ser.: Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Weight10.6 Oz

Length9.1in

Width6.3in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2008-053503

GroupScholarly & Professional

Series Volume Number24

Number of Volumes0 Vols.

Dewey Decimal306

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

Lc Classification NumberGn307.5.K54 2009

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsThis is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical and methodological intervention. It provides ground zero - the starting place for the next generation of scholars who study the self and its technologies, the post-global citizen, ethnography in the mobilized field, humanizing technology in a world without borders or boundaries. [This is] a path-breaking accomplishment by a major new social theorist. In these pages McLuhan meets James Carey in a new performative space. (Norman K. Denzin, College of Communications Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)., «This is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical and methodological intervention. It provides ground zero - the starting place for the next generation of scholars who study the self and its technologies, the post-global citizen, ethnography in the mobilized field, humanizing technology in a world without borders or boundaries. [This is] a path-breaking accomplishment by a major new social theorist. In these pages McLuhan meets James Carey in a new performative space.» (Norman K. Denzin, College of Communications Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Publication Date2009-04-29