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What is Mobile Culture

Chapter 112
Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology
A recent mode of production and consumption of information, knowledge and culture, articulated to social mobilities and discourses on the urban, and mainly activated trough digital mobile devices, such as cell phones.
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Mobile Culture for Tourism Communication
Pedro Andrade (Institute of Social Sciences, Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3473-1.ch112
Abstract
Mobile devices and the corresponding culture, are transforming the way we understand and sense social, urban and intercultural processes. The aim of this text is twofold: firstly, to circumscribe the main ideas and concepts which clarify the process of mobile culture, activated through the use of mobile apparatus (cell phones, etc.). Secondly, inquiry why and how mobile culture and its instruments facilitate or difficult communication within tourism activities. Tourism is one of the most relevant processes within the contemporary city, in the sense that it activates multiple urban mobilities and their modes and means of communication, in particular the social and cultural exchanges among native citizens of a destination place, and tourists visiting this locality.
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Which Sociology of Urban Tourism in the Day After Viral Society?: For an Intercultural, Intermediary, and Inter-Methodological Hybrid and Open Research
Way of exercising culture and social life in general, which is partly transformed into a digital life, linked to the rhythms and moving places of everyday urban life, in particular the urban mobility of the city 3.0, the smart city and the creative city, especially through portable devices, such as the laptop and tablet computer, or the iPod and mobile phone.
Published in Chapter: Which Sociology of Urban Tourism in the Day After Viral Society?: For an Intercultural, Intermediary, and Inter-Methodological Hybrid and Open Research; From: Handbook of Research on Urban Tourism, Viral Society, and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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