Molz Journal

In Jennie Molz's Connectivity, Collaboration, Search, Molz not only places emphasis on mobilization as a means of circulating material, but also emphasizes the cultural impacts that mobilization affords to society. Mol says, "To reflect on mobile methodologies is to reflect on movement, in its various forms, not only as an object of knowledge,but also as a mode of knowing." Mobilization therefore, fosters an intellectual curiosity in the mobilized and the mobilizer. Material not only exists in the physical sense, it also exists in the ideological sense which is carried out through modes of circulation--mobilization. Further Molz explains, "Interlinked practices of investigating mobilities and mobilizing research techniques are not just about how people make knowledge of the world, but how they physically and socially make the world through the ways they move and mobilise people, information, objects and ideas." Essentially, Molz is highlighting how the act of mobilizing isn't the only dynamic at work. Molz suggests that the ideas that are mobilized simply dictate the ways in which they are circulated in the first place, making mobilization and imperative component to any ideology. In terms of personal reflection, it is interesting to see how ideas are mobilized electronically. Consider the election for instance. Many social media users have mobilized their internal thoughts on the matter through a rather public interface. Contingent upon what social media platform is selected, whatever idea that was expressed by the original user is essentially not original any longer because of the mobility of the message. Tying into Molz's idea of mobility as action, as communicative beings, we essentially dictate how we mobilize our own ideas through verbal and nonverbal expression.