具体描述
There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconferencing. Such developments in communication, along with a similar increase in physical travel and movement of goods around the globe, reconfigure social networks by disconnecting and reconnecting people in new ways.
This original book puts forward one of the first social science studies of the geographies of social networks and related mobilities of travel, communications and face-to-face meetings. The book examines five interdependent mobilities that form and reform these geographies of networks and travel in the contemporary world. These are: physical travel of people for work, leisure, pleasure, migration and escape; physical movement of objects delivered to producers, consumers and retailers; imaginative travel elsewhere through images and memories seen on texts, TV, computer screens and film; virtual travel on the internet; and communicative travel through letters, cards, telegrams, telephones, faxes, text messages and videoconferences.
In the book the authors examine the interconnections between these different mobilities. They research how travel and social meetings require systems of coordination using virtual and communicative travel in-between physical travel and meetings. They argue that, while it might be imagined that there would be less need of physical meetings with improved technology, on the contrary, scheduled visits and meetings have become highly significant. The research shows that they are necessary to social life in the contemporary world, both within business and, especially, within families and friendships which are increasingly conducted at a distance.
作者简介
Jonas Larsen is Lecturer in Geography at Roskilde University, Denmark.
John Urry is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK.
Kay Axhausen is Professor of Transport Planning at the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.
目录信息
Preface vii
1 Researching Networks and Travel: An Introduction 1
2 Social Networks 11
3 Meetings and Networks 29
4 Mobilities 47
5 Research Design 63
6 Geographies of Networks and Mobilities 73
7 Travel and Meetings 93
8 Coordinating Networks and Travel 111
9 Research and Policy Futures 125
Appendix A Distances To and Locations of Significant Others 133
Appendix B Distribution of Distances by Rank 143
References 145
Index 161
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