Mobile Selves
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Mobile Selves
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Author : Ulla D. Berg
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2017-06
Mobile Selves written by Ulla D. Berg and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06 with Political Science categories.
Mobile Selves illuminates how transnational communicative practices and forms of exchange produce new forms of kinship, social relations, and subjectivities for global labor migrants. It shows how migrants create and circulate new portrayals of themselves, which work both to challenge the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country and to shape how they construct and experience their mobility, and reenvision themselves and their communities in the process. In this engaging volume Ulla D. Berg examines the conditions under which racialized Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands of Peru to migrate to the United States, how they fare, and what constrains their movement and their attempts to maintain meaningful social relations across borders. By exploring the ways in which migration is mediated between the Peruvian Andes and the United States-by documents, money, and images and objects in circulation-this book makes a major contribution to the documentation and theorization of the role of technology and, more broadly, of communicative practices in fostering new forms of migrant sociality and subjectivity. In its focus on the forms of person-hood and belonging that these mediations enable, the volume adds to key anthropological debates about affect, subjectivity, and sociality in today's mobile world. It also makes significant contributions to studies of inequality in Latin America, showcasing the intersection of transnational mobility with structures and processes of exclusion in both national and global contexts.
Phone
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Author : Will Self
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-05-25
Phone written by Will Self and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-25 with Fiction categories.
'WHATEVER YOU DO hang on to the phone. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Feel the smoothness of its bevelled screen . . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Place your thumb in the soft depression of its belly-button - turn it over and over. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! A five hundred-quid worry bead - and all I worry about is losing the bloody thing. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . !' For the four characters at the heart of Will Self's brilliantly acute novel of our times the five hundred-quid worry bead in their pocket may be both a blessing and a curse. For elderly Dr Zachary Busner it is a mysterious object - 'NO CALLER ID - How should this be interpreted? Is it that the caller is devoid of an identity due to some psychological or physical trauma?' - but also it's his life line to his autistic grandson Ben, whose own connection with technology is, in turn, a vital one. For Jonathan De'Ath , aka 'the Butcher', MI6 agent, the phone may reveal his best kept secret of all: that Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, and highly-trained tank commander - is Jonathan 's long time lover. And when technology, love and violence finally converge in the wreckage of postwar Iraq, the Colonel and the Spy's dalliance will determine the destiny of nations. Uniting our most urgent contemporary concerns: from the ubiquitous mobile phone to a family in chaos; from the horror of modern war, to the end of privacy, Phone is Will Self's most important and compelling novel to date.
Being Human Being Migrant
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Author : Anne Sigfrid Grønseth
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-10-30
Being Human Being Migrant written by Anne Sigfrid Grønseth and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-30 with Social Science categories.
Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant's movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living "in between" or on the "borderlands" between differently figured life-worlds. Focusing on memories, nostalgia, the here-and-now social experiences of daily living, and the hopes and dreams for the future, the volume demonstrates how all interact in migrants' and refugees' experience of identity and quest for well-being.
Educating For Language And Literacy Diversity
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Author : M. Prinsloo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-12
Educating For Language And Literacy Diversity written by M. Prinsloo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-12 with Education categories.
Educators and researchers in variety of locations increasingly encounter linguistically and socio-culturally diverse groups of students in their classrooms and lecture halls. This book examines everyday forms of talk and writing in relation to standardised forms and schooling expectations to suggest ways forward in educational discourse.
Words Of Passage
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Author : Hilary Parsons Dick
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2018-05-01
Words Of Passage written by Hilary Parsons Dick and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with Social Science categories.
Migration fundamentally shapes the processes of national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexico—even for people who never migrate or who return home permanently. Discourse about migrants, both at the governmental level and among ordinary Mexicans as they envision their own or others’ lives in “El Norte,” generates generic images of migrants that range from hardworking family people to dangerous lawbreakers. These imagined lives have real consequences, however, because they help to determine who can claim the resources that facilitate economic mobility, which range from state-sponsored development programs to income earned in the North. Words of Passage is the first full-length ethnography that examines the impact of migration from the perspective of people whose lives are affected by migration, but who do not themselves migrate. Hilary Parsons Dick situates her study in the small industrial city of Uriangato, in the state of Guanajuato. She analyzes the discourse that circulates in the community, from state-level pronouncements about what makes a “proper” Mexican to working-class people’s talk about migration. Dick shows how this migration discourse reflects upon and orders social worlds long before—and even without—actual movements beyond Mexico. As she listens to men and women trying to position themselves within the migration discourse and claim their rights as “proper” Mexicans, she demonstrates that migration is not the result of the failure of the Mexican state but rather an essential part of nation-state building.
Transmedia Selves
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Author : James Dalby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-10
Transmedia Selves written by James Dalby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10 with Digital media categories.
"This book examines the mediated shift in the contemporary human condition, focusing on the ways in which we synthesise with media content in daily life, essentially transmediating ourselves into new forms and (re)creating ourselves across media. Across an international roster of essays, this book establishes a transdisciplinary theory for the 'transmedia self', exploring how technological ubiquity and digital self-determination combine with themes and disciplines such as celebrity culture, fandom, play, politics, and ultimately broader self-conception and projection to inform the creation of transmedia identities in the 21st century. Specifically, the book repositions transmediality as key to understanding the formation of identity in a post-digital media culture and transmedia age, where our lives are interlaced, intermingled, and narrativised across a range of media platforms and interfaces. This book is ideal for scholars and students interested in transmedia storytelling, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, philosophy, and politics"--
Understanding Media Users
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Author : Tony Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2009
Understanding Media Users written by Tony Wilson and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Social Science categories.
'Understanding Media Users' provides students with a solid history of media effects' and an integrated account of analytical approaches that constitute media reception theory.
Perpetuum Mobile
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Author : Henry Dircks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
Perpetuum Mobile written by Henry Dircks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Perpetual motion categories.
Between The Public And Private In Mobile Communication
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Author : Ana Serrano Tellería
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-06-14
Between The Public And Private In Mobile Communication written by Ana Serrano Tellería and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-14 with Computers categories.
17 Structural Crises of Meaning and New Technologies: Reframing the Public and the Private in the News Media through the Expansion of Voices by Social Networks -- 18 A Starting Path for a Great Future -- List of Contributors -- Index
Self Organized Mobile Communication Technologies And Techniques For Network Optimization
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Author : Diab, Ali
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2016-04-25
Self Organized Mobile Communication Technologies And Techniques For Network Optimization written by Diab, Ali and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
With increased consumer use and adoption, mobile communication technologies are faced with the challenge of creating an adequate wireless networking architecture that can support a high degree of scalability, performance, and reliability in a cost-effective manner without comprising security or quality of service. Self-Organized Mobile Communication Technologies and Techniques for Network Optimization explores self-organizing networks (SONs) as a proposed solution for the automation of mobile communication tasks that currently require significant efforts for planning, operation, and management. Emphasizing research on the latest generation of mobile communication networks, the 5th generation (5G), this publication proposes timely solutions and presents the latest developments in the field of mobile communication technologies. IT developers, engineers, graduate-level students, and researchers will find this publication to be essential to their research needs.