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• The significance of travel and mobility-- Mobility and society-- Reconstructing mobilities-- Changes in everyday mobility: an overview-- Travelling to school-- Travelling to work-- Travel for leisure and pleasure: children playing and hanging around-- Travel for leisure and pleasure: entertainment, sport, shopping and holidays-- Mobility, family and the life course-- Transport policies, technologies and the experience of everyday-- The lessons of history: mobility change and contemporary transport policy-- Bibliography-- Index.
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For most people in the developed world, the ability to travel freely on a daily basis is almost taken for granted. Although there is a large volume of literature on contemporary mobility and associated transport problems, there are no comprehensive studies of the ways in which these trends have changed over time. This book provides a detailed empirical analysis of mobility change in Britain over the Twentieth Century. Beginning with an explanatory theoretical overview, setting the UK case studies within an international context, the book then analyses changes in the journey to school, the journey to work, and travelling for pleasure. It also looks at the ways in which changes in mobility have interacted with changes in the family life cycle and assesses the impact of new transport technologies on everyday mobility. It concludes by examining the implications of past mobility change for contemporary transport policy.
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• Part 1: Financial Strategies
• 1. Financial Risks and Opportunities
• 2. Financial Creativity
• 3. Investment Strategies in Market Uncertainty
• 4. International Comparison of Market Risks Across Shipping-Related Industries
• 5. Perceptions of Foreign Exchange Rate Risk in the Shipping Industry
• Part 2: People and Skills
• 6. Developments in the Labour Market
• 7. The Future Shortage of Seafarers: Will it become a reality?
• 8. Finding a Balance: Companies, seafarers and family life
• 9. Seafarers of the World's Largest Fleet
• Part 3: Ports in Transition
• 10. Ports as Hubs in the Logistics Chain
• 11. Cooperation and Competition in International Container Transport
• 12. Northern Range Port Strategy
• 13. The Peripheral Port Challenge in Container Port Systems
• Part 4: Logistics and ICT
• 14. Innovating Ocean Transport Through Logistics and ICT
• 15. Responding to Shippers' Supply Chain Requirements
• 16. The End of the Box?
• 17. ICT Practices in Container Transport
• Part 5: The Regulatory Framework
• 18. The Surge in Regulation
• 19. Green Shipping: European Policy and Economic Forces
• 20. Maritime Legislation: New areas for safety of life at sea
• 21. Raising World Maritime Standards.
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The importance of the international maritime transport industry is difficult to overstate. This new book presents an interdisciplinary approach from a wide range of internationally-based experts. International Maritime Transport represents a radical departure from previous works in its structure and approach. The section editors each discuss the state of the art in the opening chapter, before introducing a selection of works providing a wide-ranging analysis of the subject. Wide discretion of approach has provided literary freedom for individual opinion and analysis within the overall framework: this permits a level of innovation which is perhaps stifled by the more standardized model. Whilst each perspective can be seen as exclusive, together they form a comprehensive volume of issues in contemporary maritime transport. Topics covered include: ports as interfaces, logistics, manpower and skills, financial risk and opportunities, the regulatory framework. Each chapter contains an introduction which explains the context of the chapter within the book and the contemporary state of the art. Under the editorship of maritime experts James McConville, Alfonso Morvillo and Heather Leggate, the book is sure to be of interest to students and academics working on maritime studies, as well as being useful to professionals and policy makers in the maritime industry.
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• Gendered mobilities: towards an holistic understanding, Tim Cresswell and Tanu Priya Uteng-- Part I Dialogical Reflections: Mobility as capability, David Kronlid-- Embodying the space between: unmapping writing about racialized and gendered mobilities, Sheela Subramanian-- Motherhood, risk and everyday mobilities, Lesley Murray-- 'mobile belonging': exploring transnational feminist theory and online connectivity, Michaela Fay-- Gendering mobility: insights into the construction of spatial concepts, Nadine Cattan-- The culture of automobility: how interacting drivers relate to legal standards and to each other in traffic, Anette Jerup Jorgensen. Part II How and Why are Mobilities Gendered?: Gender still matters: mobility aspirations among European scientists working abroad, Elisabeth Scheibelhofer-- 'I'm more sexy here': erotic subjectivities of female tourists in the 'sexual paradise' of the Costa Rica Caribbean, Susan Frohlick-- A spatial exploration of the accessibility of low-income women: Chengdi, China and Chennai, India, Sumeeta Srinivasan-- Gendered mobilities in developing countries: the case of (urban) Uganda, Nite Tanzarn-- Gender differences in the influences of urban structure on daily travel, Petter Naess-- Daily mobility of men and women - a barometer of gender equality?, Randi Hjorthol. Part III Seeking Grounds for Future Policies: Gender and social usage of mobile technologies: from information society policies to everyday practices, Tommi Inkinen-- Gender mainstreaming in Swedish transport policy, Merritt Polk-- Are we there yet? Women and transport revisited, Clara Greed. Epilogue: Gendered Mobilities: epilogue, Mini Sheller-- Index.
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Being socially and geographically mobile is generally seen as one of the central aspects of women's wellbeing. Alongside with health, education and political participation, mobility is indispensable in order for women to reach goals such as agency and freedom. Building on new philosophical underpinnings of 'mobility', whereby society is seen to be framed by the convergence of various mobilities, this volume focuses on the intersection of mobility, social justice and gender.The authors reflect on five highly interdependent mobilities that form and reform social life: the origin, divisions and implication of physical travel for work, leisure, family life, migration and escape; physical movement of goods and their gendered impacts; the gendered content of imagined travel through televisual images; virtual travel via the Internet; and communicative travel through person-to-person messages via letters, telephone, fax and mobile phone. They argue that, though constraints in accessibility can produce restricted mobility, the range of factors constraining women's mobility goes well beyond transport, covering an entire range of social, cultural, religious, economic, ethnic, and political factors and processes.
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• Part 1: Financial Strategies
• 1. Financial Risks and Opportunities
• 2. Financial Creativity
• 3. Investment Strategies in Market Uncertainty
• 4. International Comparison of Market Risks Across Shipping-Related Industries
• 5. Perceptions of Foreign Exchange Rate Risk in the Shipping Industry
• Part 2: People and Skills
• 6. Developments in the Labour Market
• 7. The Future Shortage of Seafarers: Will it become a reality?
• 8. Finding a Balance: Companies, seafarers and family life
• 9. Seafarers of the World's Largest Fleet
• Part 3: Ports in Transition
• 10. Ports as Hubs in the Logistics Chain
• 11. Cooperation and Competition in International Container Transport
• 12. Northern Range Port Strategy
• 13. The Peripheral Port Challenge in Container Port Systems
• Part 4: Logistics and ICT
• 14. Innovating Ocean Transport Through Logistics and ICT
• 15. Responding to Shippers' Supply Chain Requirements
• 16. The End of the Box?
• 17. ICT Practices in Container Transport
• Part 5: The Regulatory Framework
• 18. The Surge in Regulation
• 19. Green Shipping: European Policy and Economic Forces
• 20. Maritime Legislation: New areas for safety of life at sea
• 21. Raising World Maritime Standards.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The importance of the international maritime transport industry is difficult to overstate. This new book presents an interdisciplinary approach from a wide range of internationally-based experts. International Maritime Transport represents a radical departure from previous works in its structure and approach. The section editors each discuss the state of the art in the opening chapter, before introducing a selection of works providing a wide-ranging analysis of the subject. Wide discretion of approach has provided literary freedom for individual opinion and analysis within the overall framework: this permits a level of innovation which is perhaps stifled by the more standardized model. Whilst each perspective can be seen as exclusive, together they form a comprehensive volume of issues in contemporary maritime transport. Topics covered include: ports as interfaces, logistics, manpower and skills, financial risk and opportunities, the regulatory framework. Each chapter contains an introduction which explains the context of the chapter within the book and the contemporary state of the art. Under the editorship of maritime experts James McConville, Alfonso Morvillo and Heather Leggate, the book is sure to be of interest to students and academics working on maritime studies, as well as being useful to professionals and policy makers in the maritime industry.
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• Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Television Code and the Trade Association
• 1. Regulatory Precedents before Television: The Government and the NAB Experiment with Radio
• 2. Distinguishing Television from Radio via the Trade Association: The Rise and Fall of the Television Broadcasters Association
• 3. The Industry Talks about a Television Code: Discourses of Decency, Self-Regulation, and Medium Specificity
• 4. The Television Audience Speaks Out: Viewer Complaints and the Demand for Government Intervention
• 5. The Federal Communications Commission: Impotent Bureaucrats, Underhanded Censors, or Exasperated Intermediaries?
• 6. Senator William Benton Challenges the Commercial Television Paradigm Conclusion: After the Code Appendix A. The Television Code: Section on "Acceptability of Program Material" Appendix B. The Television Code: Section on "Decency and Decorum in Production" Notes Bibliography Index.
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The broadcasting industry's trade association, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), sought to sanitize television content via its self-regulatory document, the Television Code. The Code covered everything from the stories, images, and sounds of TV programs (no profanity, illicit sex and drinking, negative portrayals of family life and law enforcement officials, or irreverence for God and religion) to the allowable number of commercial minutes per hour of programming. It mandated that broadcasters make time for religious programming and discouraged them from charging for it. And it called for tasteful and accurate coverage of news, public events, and controversial issues. Using archival documents from the Federal Communications Commission, NBC, the NAB, and a television reformer, Senator William Benton, this book explores the run-up to the adoption of the 1952 Television Code from the perspectives of the government, TV viewers, local broadcasters, national networks, and the industry's trade association. Deborah L. Jaramillo analyzes the competing motives and agendas of each of these groups as she builds a convincing case that the NAB actually developed the Television Code to protect commercial television from reformers who wanted more educational programming, as well as from advocates of subscription television, an alternative distribution model to the commercial system. By agreeing to self-censor content that viewers, local stations, and politicians found objectionable, Jaramillo concludes, the NAB helped to ensure that commercial broadcast television would remain the dominant model for decades to come.
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• Introduction: Using an App to Go to Work-Uber as a Symbol of the New Economy
• 1. Driving as Glamorous Labor: How Uber Uses the Myths of the Sharing Economy
• 2. Motivations to Drive: How Uber's System Rewards Full-Time and Recreational Drivers Differently
• 3. The Technology Pitch: How Uber Creates Entrepreneurship for the Masses
• 4. The Shady Middleman: How Uber Manages Money
• 5. Behind the Curtain: How Uber Manages Drivers with Algorithms
• 6. In the Big Leagues: How Uber Plays Ball Conclusion: The New Age of Uber-How Technology Consumption Rewrote the Rules of Work
• Appendix 1. Methodology: How I Studied Uber
• Appendix 2. Ridehailing beyond Uber: Meet Lyft, the Younger Twin Notes Index.
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Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss. The neutral language of technology masks the powerful influence algorithms have across the New Economy. Uberland chronicles the stories of drivers in more than twenty-five cities in the United States and Canada over four years, shedding light on their working conditions and providing a window into how they feel behind the wheel. The book also explores Uber's outsized influence around the world: the billion-dollar company is now influencing everything from debates about sexual harassment and transportation regulations to racial equality campaigns and labor rights initiatives. Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat's firsthand experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees, Uberland goes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.
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• Introduction: Using an app to go to work-Uber as a symbol of the new economy
• Workers as digital pawns : how Uber uses the sharing economy to exploit everyone
• Motivations to drive : how Uber creates jobs for many at the expense of a few
• Grandiose promises : how Uber proposes entrepreneurship to the masses
• The shady middleman : how Uber plays broker to line its pockets
• Behind the curtain : how Uber rules drivers with algorithms
• In the big leagues : how Uber plays ball
• Conclusion: The new age of Uber-how technology consumption rewrote the rules of work

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss. The neutral language of technology masks the powerful influence algorithms have across the New Economy. Uberland chronicles the stories of drivers in more than twenty-five cities in the United States and Canada over four years, shedding light on their working conditions and providing a window into how they feel behind the wheel. The book also explores Uber's outsized influence around the world: the billion-dollar company is now influencing everything from debates about sexual harassment and transportation regulations to racial equality campaigns and labor rights initiatives. Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat's firsthand experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees, Uberland goes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.
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• Chapter 1: Introduction: Digitizing the Melanesian Family 1.1 Leapfrogging Technology 1.1 An Anthropology of Digital Technologies 1.3 The Diffusion of Contagious Ideas 1.4 An Ethnography of Digital Technology 1.5 Structure of the Book
• Chapter 2: Methodological Notes 2.1 Becoming Familiar in Gwou'ulu 2.2 The Ethnographer and the Mobile Phone Research Protocol 2.3 A Different Sort of Kinship Chart Part I: The Many Lives and Deaths of the Melanesian Smartphone
• Chapter 3: A Sketch of Many Births, Lives and Deaths of Smartphones 3.1 Getting a Smartphone 3.2 Losing a Smartphone 3.3 Using a Smartphone 3.4 Gendered Divisions 3.5 Generational Divide 3.6 Educational Differences
• Chapter 4: A Digital Swiss Army Knife 4.1 The Main Functions of a Popular Smartphone 4.2 The 1TOK and Jenny TV as "smarter mobile phones" 4.3 A Communication Technolgoy 4.3a Telephones 4.3b Texting 4.3c Internet 4.4 Multimedia and Entertainment 4.4a Music Player 4.4b Camera, visual display and movie player 4.4c Television 4.5 Back to the Basics 4.5a Flashlights 4.5b Watches and Calendars 4.5c Calculator 4.6 Beyond Universals
• Part 2
• Chapter 5: Digitizing Social Networks 5.1 A Brief Sketch of the Central Technological Properties of Mobile Telephone 5.2 Villagers' Smartphones and Phone Books 5.2a Emily 5.2b Victoria 5.2c Philip 5.2d Florian 5.3 Telephony, Kin Networks and the Urban-Rural Divide 5.4 Digitizing Kin Connections 5.4a Access to Biomedical Care 5.4b Gender-based Violence and Women's Support Networks 5.4c Funeral Arrangements 5.4d Conflict Management 5.4e Remittance Requests 5.5 Transforming Distant Relations Through Telephony?
• Chapter 6: Telephonic Immorality and Uncertainty 6.1 Sexually Promiscuous Telephony 6.2 Smartphone Magic 6.2a Agalo and Malevolent Sorcery 6.2b Contagious Magic 6.2c Telephonic Contagion 6.2d Love Magic 6.3 Cautionary Tales 6.4 Telephonic Anxieties in Accelerated Socialities
• Part 3: MicroSD Culture and Digital Parenting
• Chapter 7: The Muvi Haos 7.1 The Muvi Haos 7.2 The Demise of the Muvi Haos and the Rise of Private Viewing 7.3 From Public to Private Viewing
• Chapter 8: The Babysitting Smartphone 8.1 Pikinini Tumas 8.2 Raising Children: An Issue of Relevant Social Groups 8.3 A Different Kind of Sunday School? 8.4 Educational Conundrums 8.5 Fathers as Babysitters 8.5a Ramo and Rambo 8.5b Kissing Movies 8.5c Sources of friction 8.6 Mothers as Babysitters 8.6a Nemo not Rambo 8.6b Dancing not Kissing 8.7 Guiding Visions and Competing Futures
• Part 4: Towards a Theory of Smartphones as Kinship Tools
• Chapter 9: The Sociotechnical System of Melanesian Smartphones 9.1 The Materials upon which Technologies Act 9.2 The Forces that Move Objects and Transform Matter 9.3 The Objects that Operate on the Materials Themselves 9.4 The Gestures People Use to Make the Objects Work 9.5 Knowledge that Puts Objects to Work
• Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Supercompositional Object\
• 10.1 Family Life in Digital Perils 10.2 Beyond Universalities: Smartphones as Rural Kinship Technologies 10.3 Moral Anxieties in Medias Res 10.4 Smartphones as Supercompositional Objects.
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At once a digital ethnography of smartphones and a classically conceived village-based ethnography, this book relocates the study of digital technologies to rural Melanesia, with a focus on the Lau of Malaita, Soloman Islands. In this 'technography', Geoffrey Hobbis studies the materiality and functional attributes of smartphones and their object biographies-modes of acquisition, maintenance, uses, limitations and the problems specific to this region in adopting and adapting smartphones in everyday life. As he examines the various uses of smartphones, as both telephone and multimedia device, Hobbis also explores the social and cultural transformations, the hopes and uncertainties, with which they are associated. Ultimately, in bringing together a study of digital technologies with classical anthropological theory, The Digitizing Family develops a theory of smartphones as kinship technologies and supercompositional objects.
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