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Mediated mobilities

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posted on 2015-06-26, 08:35 authored by Emily KeightleyEmily Keightley, Anna Reading
In this article we introduce the themed issue ‘Mediated Mobilities’. We begin by articulating some of the potential relationships between media and mobility critically addressing the key conceptual distinctions that underpin them and the methodological demands placed on media studies when exploring the complex ways in which mobility is embedded in contemporary media ecologies. In the first instance we consider precisely what is meant by mobility, and, more specifically, interrogate the dynamic relationship between mediated mobility and immobility. We then move on to develop a methodological framework or agenda for research on mediated mobilities. This framework traces how existing analytical trajectories in media studies research need to be developed and synthesized in order to be able to account for the multiple modes of mobility facilitated by media technologies, texts, institutions and audiences. In the last part of the article we examine the development of innovative methodologies and forms of analysis that give emphasis to movement and trajectory, but also human and algorithmic agency.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY

Volume

36

Issue

3

Pages

285 - 301 (17)

Citation

KEIGHTLEY, E. and READING, A., 2014. Mediated mobilities. Media Culture & Society, 36 (3), pp. 285 - 301

Publisher

SAGE © The Author(s)

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

Article in closed access.

ISSN

0163-4437

Language

  • en