Is children's independent mobility really independent? A study of children's mobility combining ethnography and GPS/mobile phone technologies

Mobilities

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-58

  Mikkelsen, Miguel Romero ^a   Christensen, Pia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Environment; Ethnography; GPS; Independence; Mobile phone questionnaire; Mobility

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; GPS; MOBILITY; SUBURBAN AREA; THEORETICAL STUDY;

COPENHAGEN [(CTY) HOVEDSTADEN]; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; HOVEDSTADEN; JUTLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 59749089134     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450100802657954     Document Type: Article

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