Connected, programmed, and immobilised: a mobile ethnography of platform-mediated food delivery in Seoul

IF 2.9 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI:10.1080/17450101.2024.2327845
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Against the rise of mobility platforms, this paper explores the practices and politics of mobility arising from the everyday infrastructural functioning of Baemin, the largest food delivery platform in South Korea. While the literature on food delivery platforms centres on changing labour relations, platform workers do not merely represent a new type of labour; they likewise form a critical conduit in the urban logistics system. Platform-mediated food delivery can be therefore conceptualised as a moving assemblage of heterogeneous entities that constitutes an urban infrastructure. Having emerged as an urban mobility regime, food delivery platforms increasingly enact a form of governance, enabling a particular mode of circulation and movements. Engaging with the mobility framework, combined with critical infrastructure scholarship, this paper seeks to uncover the politics of im/mobility involved in the creation of a ceaselessly flowing city envisaged by Baemin. It identifies three forms of mobilities—connected, programmed, and immobilised—produced through contingent interactions between moving bodies, technologies, and the environment, which could amount to tethering effects. Integrating empirical materials from multimethod mobile ethnography in Seoul, it presents on-the-ground accounts of practices, interactions, and sensations gathered around the Baemin-mediated food delivery.

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在移动平台兴起的背景下,本文探讨了韩国最大的食品外卖平台--"百民 "的日常基础设施运作中产生的移动实践和政治。虽然有关食品配送平台的文献主要集中在劳动关系的变化上,但平台工人并不仅仅代表一种新的劳动类型,他们同样构成了城市物流系统中的一个重要渠道。因此,可以将以平台为中介的食品配送概念化为一个由异质实体组成的移动集合体,它构成了一种城市基础设施。作为一种城市流动机制,食品配送平台日益成为一种治理形式,促成了一种特殊的流通和流动模式。结合流动性框架和关键基础设施的学术研究,本文试图揭示白明所设想的创造流动不息的城市所涉及的 "即时/流动 "政治。本文确定了三种形式的流动性--连接的、程序化的和固定的--这些流动性是通过流动的身体、技术和环境之间的偶然互动产生的,可能相当于拴住效应。本研究整合了首尔多方法移动人种学的经验材料,对以白民为媒介的送餐活动的实践、互动和感觉进行了实地描述。
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Mobilities
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期刊介绍: Mobilities examines both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private spaces, and the travel of material things in everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, present new challenges for the coordination and governance of mobilities and for the protection of mobility rights and access. This has elicited many new research methods and theories relevant for understanding the connections between diverse mobilities and immobilities.
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