Taxis as media
A Temporal Materialist Reading of the Taxi-Cab
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3025699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Sharma (0009-0006-0619-5410, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 457-464 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-4630 • E-ISSN: 1363-0296 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13504630802211910 |
| OpenAlex | W2051527337 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 9 |
Through interviews with Toronto city taxi drivers and frequent business travelers this paper explores how the taxi might be understood as a medium – one that cannot be disarticulated from a particular temporal politics. To understand the taxi as a medium is also to insist that labor, social difference, and the cultural politics of space and time are not external effects or byproducts of media, but rather quite central to how media mediates
Advertising · Business · Epistemology · Materialism · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Social media · Sociology · Taxis · Transport engineering · Anthropology · Computer Science · Cultural Studies · Engineering · Law · Transportation and Mobility Innovations
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2021 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |