Mobile Methodologies

How do we research and represent mobile experiences? This book, the first to examine mobile methods, explores the movement of bodies through space, examining perceived limitations and considering methodological responses, technologies and strategies designed to inform our understanding of people's experience of movement through space.

Preface by Mimi Sheller, Swarthmore College, USA Introduction; B.Fincham, M.McGuinness& L.Murray PART I: DRIVING THE MOBILE Contextualizing and Mobilizing Research; L.Murray Moving Towards Critical Mobility Analysis: Mixing Qualitative Approaches; M.Freudendal-Pedersen, K.Hartmann-Petersen & L.Drewes Nielsen In-vivo Sampling of Naive Drivers: Benefits, Practicalities and Ethical Considerations; I.Walker Narrating Mobile Methodologies: Reactive and Responsive Empiricisms; D.Bissell PART II: STEERING THE MOBILE Liverpool Musicscapes: Music Performance, Movement and the Built Urban Environment; B.Lashua & S.Cohen Vim de Bahia pra lhe ver: Multiple Movements in the Capoeira Batizado; N.Stephens & S.Delamont Being There/seeing There: Recording and Analysing Life in the Car; E.Laurier Writing Mobility: Australia''s Working Holiday Programme; N.Clarke Catching a Glimpse: The Value of Video in Evoking, Understanding and Representing the Practice of Cycling; K.Brown & J.Spinney Have Backpack will Travel: Auto/biography as Mobile Method; G.Letherby Conclusion; M.McGuinness, B.Fincham, & L.Murray