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In Privileged Mobilities, Erika Polson opens up the subject of the new mobilities. With an ethnographer's eye for detail and contradiction, she shows us a range of elite worlds far broader than most other books on the subject. (Saskia Sassen, Author of Expulsions) This rich and thoughtful book explores the ways that middle-class professionals use online, social, and locative media to find their place, relate to people, and negotiate cultures as they wend their ways through global metropoles. Deconstructing mobilities and their social imaginaries, Erika Polson raises fundamental questions about the nature of connection and prospects for cosmopolitan life in digital societies. (Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney) In Privileged Mobilities, Erika Polson opens up the subject of the new mobilities. With an ethnographer's eye for detail and contradiction, she shows us a range of elite worlds far broader than most other books on the subject. (Saskia Sassen, Author of Expulsions) This rich and thoughtful book explores the ways that middle-class professionals use online, social, and locative media to find their place, relate to people, and negotiate cultures as they wend their ways through global metropoles. Deconstructing mobilities and their social imaginaries, Erika Polson raises fundamental questions about the nature of connection and prospects for cosmopolitan life in digital societies. (Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney)

In Privileged Mobilities, Erika Polson opens up the subject of the new mobilities. With an ethnographer's eye for detail and contradiction, she shows us a range of elite worlds far broader than most other books on the subject. (Saskia Sassen, Author of Expulsions) This rich and thoughtful book explores the ways that middle-class professionals use online, social, and locative media to find their place, relate to people, and negotiate cultures as they wend their ways through global metropoles. Deconstructing mobilities and their social imaginaries, Erika Polson raises fundamental questions about the nature of connection and prospects for cosmopolitan life in digital societies. (Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney)

This is an interesting study of current global mobilities, both because of its empirical data and because of its detailed examination of a newly emerged phenomenon. It will have considerable appeal across various academic disciplines and fields in the social sciences. (European Journal of Communication 32/5 2017)

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Erika Polson (PhD, The Pennsylvania State University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. Her work has appeared in publications including Media, Culture & Society, Communication, Culture & Critique, New Media & Society, and the International Communication Gazette.

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