Seen from a carriage: a rhythmanalytic study of train travel and mediation

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Title: Seen from a carriage: a rhythmanalytic study of train travel and mediation
Author(s): Wilken, Rowan
Abstract: Over the past decade or so, there has been a significant flowering of critical interest in train travel, especially as this dovetails with a range of other concerns, including transport planning issues, temporal considerations, how train travel is experienced by passengers, and passenger use of ICTs. The present study contributes to this literature. It combines the above strands of enquiry in an exploration of the complex wider forms of mediation that occur within the confined space of the train carriage. In examining this issue, the analysis of this chapter draws together three different approaches: informal observational analysis, Lefebvrian 'rhythmanalysis', and engagement with the established critical literature on train travel, everyday public interactions, and contemporary train-based mobile media research.
Publication type: Book chapter
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology
Source: Trains, culture, and mobility: riding the rails / Benjamin Fraser and Steven D. Spalding (eds.), Chapter 4, pp. 91-113
Publication year: 2012
Keyword(s): Melbourne, Australia; Mobile media; Observational analysis; Passengers; Public transport; Railroad travel; Railways; Rhythmanalysis; Trains
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739167502, 0739167502
Publisher URL: http://rowman.com/isbn/0739167502
Peer reviewed