The digital dimension of mobilities: mapping spatial relationships between corporeal and digital displacements in Barcelona
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- dc.contributor.author Brandajs, Fiammetta
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-08T05:45:46Z
- dc.date.available 2024-04-08T05:45:46Z
- dc.date.issued 2021
- dc.description.abstract This paper explores the ways in which technologies reshape everyday activities, adopting a mobility perspective of the digital environment, which is reframed in terms of the constitutive/substitutive element of corporeal mobility. We propose the construction of a Digital Mobility Index, quantified by measuring the usage typology in which the technology is employed to enable mobility. Through a digital perspective on mobilities, it is possible to investigate how embodied practices and experiences of different modes of physical or virtual displacements are facilitated and emerge through technologies. The role of technologies in facilitating the anchoring of mobilities, transporting the tangible and intangible flow of goods, and in mediating social relations through space and time is emphasized through analysis of how digital usage can reproduce models typical of the neoliberal city, the effects of which in terms of spatial (in)justice have been widely discussed in the literature. The polarization inherent to the digital divide has been characterized by a separation between what has been called the “space of flows” (well connected, mobile, and offering more opportunities) and the “space of places” (poorly connected, fixed, and isolated). This digital divide indeed takes many forms, including divisions between classes, urban locations, and national spaces. By mapping “hyper- and hypo-mobilized” territories in Barcelona, this paper examines two main dimensions of digital inequality, on the one hand identifying the usage of the technological and digital in terms of the capacity to reach services and places, and on the other, measuring the territorial demographic and economic propensity to access to ICT as a predictive insight into the geographies of the social gap which emerge at municipal level. This approach complements conventional data sources such as municipal statistics and the digital divide enquiry conducted in Barcelona into the underlying digital capacities of the city and the digital skills of the population.
- dc.description.sponsorship This research was funded by SMARTDEST project EU-funded H2020 under the grant agreement number 870753.
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- dc.identifier.citation Brandajs F. The digital dimension of mobilities: mapping spatial relationships between corporeal and digital displacements in Barcelona. Information. 2021 Oct;12(10):421. DOI: 10.3390/info12100421
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info12100421
- dc.identifier.issn 2078-2489
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59674
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher MDPI
- dc.relation.ispartof Information. 2021 Oct;12(10):421
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/870753
- dc.rights © 2021 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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- dc.subject.keyword Mobilities
- dc.subject.keyword Immobilities
- dc.subject.keyword Digital divide
- dc.subject.keyword Technology
- dc.subject.keyword COVID-19
- dc.title The digital dimension of mobilities: mapping spatial relationships between corporeal and digital displacements in Barcelona
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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