Technologies of Mobility in the Americas

Phillip Vannini is Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography and Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Lucy Budd is Lecturer in Transport Studies in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Christian Fisker is a doctoral student in the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University. Paola Jirón is a Chilean academic from the Institute of Housing, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, the University of Chile, where she coordinates the Masters Programme on Residential Habitat.Ole B. Jensen is Professor of Urban Theory in the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark.

• Contents: Phillip Vannini/Lucy Budd/Ole B. Jensen/Christian Fisker/Paola Jirón: Technologies of Mobility in the Americas: Introduction – Mimi Sheller: Virtual Caribbeans: Edens, Economies, Elsewheres – Rob Shields: Knowing Flows: How Migration Research Meets Mobilities Through Digital Technology – Ole B. Jensen: If Only It Could Speak: Narrative Explorations of Mobility and Place in Seattle – Nick Scott: How Car Drivers Took the Streets: Critical Planning Moments of Automobility – Lucy Budd: Selling the World: Airline Advertisements and the Promotion of International Aeromobility in National Geographic, 1964-2004 – Jennie Germann Molz: Solidarity on the Move: Technology, Mobility, and Activism in a Hospitality Exchange Network – Christian E. Fisker: Glimpses of Motility of the Networked Self Across the Life Course – Kim Sawchuk/Barbara Crow: Seniors, Cell Phones, and Tactical Restriction – Phillip Vannini/Rhys Evans: Haunting Technologies: Performing Memories of Place Through Effervescent Mobilities – Tamara Shepherd/Leslie Regan Shade: Mobile Phones as a «Necessary Evil»: Canadian Youth Talk About Negotiating the Politics of Mobility – Jim Conley: A Sociology of Traffic: Driving, Cycling, Walking – Noel B. Salazar: Imaginative Technologies of (Im)mobility at the «End of the World» – Paola Jirón: Technology and Technicians Out of Control: The Implementation of Transantiago From a Daily Mobility Point of View.