Storytelling as connectivity : expanding the digital geographies of the gig economy La narration en tant que connectivité
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| Název: | Storytelling as connectivity : expanding the digital geographies of the gig economy La narration en tant que connectivité |
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| Autoři: | Webster, Natasha A. |
| Informace o vydavateli: | Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen Örebro University, Sweden 2025 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Electronic Resource |
| Abstrakt: | The last decade has seen unprecedented changes in working forms, not the least through technological innovation while leisure time is equally reshaped by platforms. Although relatively new, the gig economy–temporary work mediated through platforms–is increasingly an important form of employment globally and consequently, the gig economy is represented in popular culture. Popular culture is part of social-technical-spatial relations making these important spaces in digital geographies. However, digital content, for example from streaming programs, is often not considered in labour geography studies. By conducting ethnographic content analysis and doodling ‘think-with’ work on Beforeigners, a piece of speculative fiction from Norway, I explore how storytelling conjoins parallel digital practices. I show storytelling as a kind of softening of ground narrating technological-spatial relations and demonstrates how, from this Nordic example, storytelling is part of the continuative geographical ordering of work forms in digital spaces and places. Exploring other sites of digital spaces highlights the ways digital geography is multi-layered, inter-relational and gradient, and demonstrates the need to go beyond established sites of inquiry to understand the gig economy as a social-technological-spatial relation. |
| Témata: | Connective digital practices, gig economy, masculinities, migration, storytelling, work, Human Geography, Kulturgeografi, Article in journal, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, text |
| DOI: | 10.1080.14649365.2024.2367417 |
| URL: | Social & Cultural Geography, 1464-9365, 2025, 26:1, s. 1-19 |
| Dostupnost: | Open access content. Open access content info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
| Poznámka: | Spanish |
| Other Numbers: | UPE oai:DiVA.org:su-239409 0000-0001-6289-2380 doi:10.1080/14649365.2024.2367417 ISI:001259276200001 Scopus 2-s2.0-85197620911 1512362470 |
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| Přístupové číslo: | edsoai.on1512362470 |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | The last decade has seen unprecedented changes in working forms, not the least through technological innovation while leisure time is equally reshaped by platforms. Although relatively new, the gig economy–temporary work mediated through platforms–is increasingly an important form of employment globally and consequently, the gig economy is represented in popular culture. Popular culture is part of social-technical-spatial relations making these important spaces in digital geographies. However, digital content, for example from streaming programs, is often not considered in labour geography studies. By conducting ethnographic content analysis and doodling ‘think-with’ work on Beforeigners, a piece of speculative fiction from Norway, I explore how storytelling conjoins parallel digital practices. I show storytelling as a kind of softening of ground narrating technological-spatial relations and demonstrates how, from this Nordic example, storytelling is part of the continuative geographical ordering of work forms in digital spaces and places. Exploring other sites of digital spaces highlights the ways digital geography is multi-layered, inter-relational and gradient, and demonstrates the need to go beyond established sites of inquiry to understand the gig economy as a social-technological-spatial relation. |
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| DOI: | 10.1080.14649365.2024.2367417 |