[ecrea] New Book: MEDIA, PLACE & MOBILITY

*MEDIA, PLACE & MOBILITY*
Shaun Moores
Published by Palgrave Macmillan (£14.99)
ISBN 978-0-230-24463-4
Key Concerns in Media Studies Series
'With its powerful advocacy of a "non-media-centric" approach, this 
original and carefully argued book is to be welcomed as a significant 
intervention in the theoretical re-assessment of the field of media 
studies as a whole.' (Professor John Tomlinson, Nottingham Trent University)
/Media, Place and Mobility/ offers a new understanding of media uses as 
place-making practices in everyday living. Drawing primarily on 
phenomenological perspectives, Shaun Moores focuses on the ways in which 
people inhabit physical and media environments, and he explores the 
bodily and technologically mediated mobilities that are involved in this 
activity of dwelling. His discussion includes many specific examples of 
mobility, from the manipulation of remote-control devices to the 
movements of walking and driving in the city or of getting around in 
online social spaces.

*Shaun Moores* is Professor of Media and Communications at the 
University of Sunderland. He is the author of four previous books, 
including /Media and Everyday Life in Modern Society/ (2000) and 
/Media/Theory/ (2005).