Nanna Verhoeff is associate professor at the Department for Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. In 2006 she published The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning (Amsterdam University Press), focusing on the appeal of (virtual) travel in cinema when it was still a new medium. She is currently working on a comparative study of screen media, mobility and spatial practices, ranging from Highway Panorama’s (NAi Publishers, 2007) to mobile game consoles and navigation devices.