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Beyond the digital nomad: Transnational digital workers in Lisbon 超越数字游牧民：里斯本的跨国数字工作者

Digital Geography and Society

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100148

Víctor Riesgo Gómez , Pedro Cortez , Javier Gil , Jorge Sequera

This article examines the platformisation of urban life in Southern Europe, highlighting Lisbon as a key hub in the global outsourcing of digital labour. It identifies a model of digital corporate urbanism driven by transnational technology platforms and intermediary firms, where capital attraction, workforce management, and urban policy converge under the logic of global competitiveness.

Based on qualitative research involving interviews and participant observation, the study explores the experiences of transnational digital workers employed by companies such as Teleperformance, Accenture, and Sitel for essential tasks on platforms including TikTok and Google (content moderation, customer service, technical support). Despite being portrayed as part of the digital and creative economy, these workers face precarious and monitored labour conditions that contradict narratives of autonomy and innovation.

The findings challenge the idealisation of the digital nomad, showing that the mobility of these workers is not a lifestyle choice but a response to structural precarity and limited opportunities in their home countries. Their jobs, framed as technological, are characterized by routinisation, emotional strain, algorithmic control, and economic instability. Company-provided housing reinforces dependence and reveals the entanglement between work, dwelling, and urban regulation in a context of housing crisis.

Lisbon thus emerges as a strategic laboratory of platform capitalism, where global outsourcing intersects with local real estate dynamics. This configuration reproduces a new digital division of labour in which overqualification coexists with repetitive, low-paid tasks, turning the city into an active agent that integrates labour, housing, and capital accumulation under the regime of digital urbanism.

本文考察了南欧城市生活的平台化，强调了里斯本作为全球数字劳动力外包的关键枢纽。它确定了一个由跨国技术平台和中介公司驱动的数字企业城市主义模式，在全球竞争力的逻辑下，资本吸引、劳动力管理和城市政策融合在一起。该研究基于访谈和参与者观察的定性研究，探讨了Teleperformance、埃森哲（Accenture）和Sitel等公司雇用的跨国数字工作者在TikTok和b谷歌等平台上从事基本任务（内容审核、客户服务、技术支持）的经验。尽管被描绘成数字和创意经济的一部分，但这些工人面临着不稳定和受到监控的劳动条件，这与自主和创新的说法相矛盾。调查结果挑战了对数字游牧民的理想化，表明这些工人的流动性不是一种生活方式的选择，而是对其本国结构性不稳定和有限机会的回应。他们的工作被定义为技术工作，其特点是程式化、情绪紧张、算法控制和经济不稳定。公司提供的住房加强了依赖性，并揭示了在住房危机背景下工作、居住和城市监管之间的纠缠。因此，里斯本成为平台资本主义的战略实验室，在这里，全球外包与当地房地产动态交叉。这种配置再现了一种新的数字劳动分工，在这种分工中，过高的资格与重复的低薪任务共存，将城市变成了一个活跃的代理，在数字城市主义制度下整合了劳动力、住房和资本积累。

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Corrigendum to “The challenges of gig economy and Fairwork in Ecuador” [Digital Geography and Society 6C (2024) 100073] “厄瓜多尔零工经济和公平工作的挑战”的勘误表[数字地理与社会6C (2024) 100073]

Digital Geography and Society

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100131

María Belén Albornoz , Henry Chávez

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Erratum regarding missing Informed Consent statements in previously published articles [Volumes 4C, 5C, 6C, and 7C] 关于先前发表的文章中缺少知情同意声明的勘误表[卷4C， 5C， 6C和7C]

Digital Geography and Society

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100130

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Erratum regarding missing Informed Consent statements in previously published articles in Volume 5C 关于卷5C中先前发表的文章中缺少知情同意声明的勘误

Digital Geography and Society

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100132

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Refusal and the Computational City - From (De)Coding the Machine to (En)Coding Care: Introduction to the Special Issue 拒绝与计算城市——从机器（解码）编码到（编码）编码关怀：特刊导论

Digital Geography and Society

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100138

Maja-Lee Voigt , Niloufar Vadiati

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Social reproduction and feminized platform labor: Care, domestic work, and migrant Agency in Madrid and Milan 社会再生产和女性化的平台劳动：马德里和米兰的关怀、家务劳动和移民中介

Digital Geography and Society

Pub Date : 2025-11-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100150

Cristina Barrial Berbén , Alina Dambrosio Clementelli , Ana Santamarina

This article examines the rise of domestic and care work platforms in Southern European cities, focusing on Madrid and Milan as relational contexts where platform capitalism intersects with enduring crises of social reproduction, migration regimes, and gendered labor precarity. Drawing on Social Reproduction Theory and an intersectional analytical lens, the study unpacks how digital platforms mediate the commodification, fragmentation, and spatial reorganization of reproductive labor. Empirically, it combines multi-sited ethnography, semi-structured interviews with migrant women workers, and digital platform analysis to trace how platformization exploits and reconfigures pre-existing informal care economies historically sustained by racialized migrant labor.

The findings reveal that platforms, while promising formalization and professionalization, often deepen precarity by leveraging border regimes, creating stratified access to work, and externalizing risks onto workers. These dynamics multiply gendered spaces of vulnerability, exposing women to new forms of violence across fragmented urban and digital geographies. Simultaneously, the paper foregrounds diverse forms of migrant women's agency, including informal strategies of mutual aid, knowledge-sharing through digital networks, and collective organizing embedded in longstanding grassroots movements.

By situating the platformization of domestic labor within broader transformations of urban life and welfare retrenchment, the article advances critical debates on the feminization of platform labor and the infrastructures of social reproduction. It argues that these platforms are not only technological intermediaries but infrastructural actors reshaping the conditions of life and work. The study underscores the importance of recognizing and supporting migrant workers' everyday practices of resistance as crucial sites of political possibility amid deepening neoliberal restructuring.

本文考察了南欧城市家庭和护理工作平台的兴起，重点关注马德里和米兰作为平台资本主义与社会再生产、移民制度和性别劳动不稳定性等持久危机相交的关系背景。借助社会再生产理论和交叉分析视角，本研究揭示了数字平台如何调解再生产劳动的商品化、碎片化和空间重组。在经验上，它结合了多地点人种学、对流动女工的半结构化访谈和数字平台分析，以追踪平台化如何利用和重新配置历史上由种族化的流动劳工维持的现有非正式护理经济。研究结果表明，平台虽然有望实现正规化和专业化，但往往通过利用边界制度、创造分层的工作机会以及将风险外部化到工人身上，加深了不稳定性。这些动态增加了性别脆弱性空间，使妇女在支离破碎的城市和数字地区面临新形式的暴力。同时，本文展望了移民妇女代理的多种形式，包括非正式的互助策略、通过数字网络进行的知识共享，以及植根于长期基层运动的集体组织。通过将家务劳动的平台化置于城市生活和福利紧缩的更广泛变革中，本文推进了关于平台劳动女性化和社会再生产基础设施的批判性辩论。它认为，这些平台不仅是技术中介，而且是重塑生活和工作条件的基础设施参与者。这项研究强调了认识和支持移民工人的日常抵抗实践的重要性，这些实践是深化新自由主义重构中政治可能性的关键场所。

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How proptech platforms are reshaping discretionary power in the private rental housing market proptech平台如何重塑私人租赁住房市场的自由裁量权

Digital Geography and Society

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100147

Paria Eskandarpour

Access to rental housing has historically been influenced by the discretionary decision-making of property managers, who hold a powerful intermediary role in market interactions. The rise of digital real estate platforms—promising standardised and objective processes—raises important questions about whether these technologies reduce discretion in the new rental market, which has been reshaped by digital platforms. This study examines how discretionary practices persist in Australia's platform-mediated rental sector, where digital processes continue to involve manual input and subjective judgment. In contrast to other platform-mediated markets such as the United States, where property management is highly automated and at times algorithmic, Australia's rental market integrates human discretion into its digital infrastructure, offering a critical context for examining subjective practices in the platform-mediated rental sector. Accordingly, this paper explores evidence of discretionary judgment or explicit encouragement to use it within the current rental platform processes. To investigate this, the study employs inductive qualitative content analysis of documents, articles, and videos published on the websites of REA Group and three major Australian real estate agencies. Following this analysis, Lipsky's (2010) concept of “street-level bureaucracy” is used as a theoretical lens to examine how discretion operates in this context. This study demonstrates how market actors are encouraged to exercise discretion, and how discretion shapes digital rental processes and affects market participants. The findings reveal that platform corporations endorse and amplify subjective decision-making and power imbalances. Rather than mitigating discretionary practices, these platforms undermine tenants' rights to equitable treatment and information privacy.

从历史上看，租赁住房的获得受到物业经理的自由裁量决策的影响，物业经理在市场互动中扮演着强大的中介角色。数字房地产平台的兴起——承诺标准化和客观的过程——提出了一个重要的问题，即这些技术是否会减少新租赁市场的自由裁量权，这个市场已经被数字平台重塑。本研究考察了澳大利亚平台中介租赁行业的自由裁量权实践如何持续存在，其中数字流程仍然涉及人工输入和主观判断。与其他以平台为中介的市场（如物业管理高度自动化且有时采用算法）相比，澳大利亚的租赁市场将人的自由裁量权整合到其数字基础设施中，为研究平台为中介的租赁行业的主观实践提供了重要背景。因此，本文探索了在当前租赁平台流程中自由裁量判断或明确鼓励使用它的证据。为了调查这一点，本研究采用归纳定性的内容分析方法，对REA集团和澳大利亚三大房地产中介网站上发布的文件、文章和视频进行了分析。根据这一分析，利普斯基（2010）的“街头官僚主义”概念被用作理论视角来研究自由裁量权在这种情况下是如何运作的。本研究展示了如何鼓励市场参与者行使自由裁量权，以及自由裁量权如何塑造数字租赁过程并影响市场参与者。研究结果表明，平台公司支持并放大了主观决策和权力失衡。这些平台不但没有减轻自由裁量权，反而损害了租户获得公平待遇和信息隐私的权利。

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Digital platforms as institutional actors in the global south – Evidence from India's informal sector 数字平台作为全球南方的制度参与者——来自印度非正式部门的证据

Digital Geography and Society

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100146

Anna Elias , Georgina M. Gómez

Digital platforms are transforming labour markets, yet their role in shaping institutional contexts, particularly in informal settings, remains underexplored. Drawing on institutional voids and plurality frameworks, paper examines how platforms act as significant institutional actors, mediating the relationship between workers, and the market. We place this under empirical scrutiny through qualitative research with gig workers in Mumbai, India. Our findings identify three key voids: agency, structural, and transactional, which are interpreted using Hodgson's (2003) conceptualisation of institutions as simultaneously creating opportunities and constraints. By shaping routines, aspirations, social and economic lives, we argue that platforms actively build institutional structures that reconfigure the boundaries between formal and informal labour. The study underscores the importance of centring workers' experiences in the analyses of platform labour and highlights the need for governance and policy approaches that address the complex role of platforms in informal labour markets.

数字平台正在改变劳动力市场，但它们在塑造制度环境（尤其是在非正式环境中）方面的作用仍未得到充分探索。利用制度空白和多元化框架，本文研究了平台如何作为重要的制度参与者，调解工人与市场之间的关系。我们通过对印度孟买零工工人的定性研究，将这一点置于实证审查之下。我们的发现确定了三个关键的空白：代理、结构和交易，这是用Hodgson（2003）的制度概念来解释的，即同时创造机会和约束。通过塑造日常、愿望、社会和经济生活，我们认为平台积极地构建了重新配置正式和非正式劳动之间界限的制度结构。该研究强调了在平台劳动力分析中集中工人经验的重要性，并强调了解决平台在非正规劳动力市场中复杂作用的治理和政策方法的必要性。

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Computational urbanisms & insurgent mediations of the city: Stop the Sweeps 计算都市主义与城市的叛乱调解：停止扫荡

Digital Geography and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100145

Sarah Elwood

This paper considers digital and emplaced struggles over urban homelessness, specifically the computational and sociospatial politics of municipal systems of tent encampment removal and of the efforts of autonomous collectives to resist sweeps and support encampment dwellers. I theorize municipal systems of tent encampment removal as a form of administrative-algorithmic governance structured around the logics and practices of computation urbanism and trace their entanglements with liberal poverty governance. Through a close reading of the City of Seattle's encampment removal system, I show how these overlapping logics enable a tightly integrated self-referential system of datafication, problematization and justification that overdetermines the removability of encampments and reaffirms property and propertied personhood as (the only) legitimate basis for claims to space and permanence. My analysis takes seriously ongoing calls for orienting to the incompleteness of such computational rationalities, reading for the presence and significance of insurgent mediations that refuse these logics and generate other possible urban futures. To this end, I read the digital activism and mutual aid work of a local collective known as Stop the Sweeps Seattle as insurgent mediations of the city, examining the social and spatial claims they advance in visual and narrative representations circulated via social media. My analysis of Stop the Sweeps Seattle's content reveals a public archive of sweeps that refuses dominant computational and poverty governance logics and circulates already-existing possibilities for urban inhabitations anchored around solidarities, mutual support, and staying put.

本文考虑了城市无家可归者的数字和安置斗争，特别是帐篷营地拆除市政系统的计算和社会空间政治，以及自治集体抵制清扫和支持营地居民的努力。我将拆除帐篷营地的市政系统理论化，认为它是一种围绕计算城市主义的逻辑和实践构建的行政算法治理形式，并追溯了它们与自由主义贫困治理的纠缠。通过仔细阅读西雅图市的营地移除系统，我展示了这些重叠的逻辑是如何使一个紧密整合的自我参照系统数据化、问题化和正当化，过度决定营地的可移除性，并重申财产和有产权的人格是要求空间和永久性的（唯一）合法基础。我的分析认真考虑了当前的呼吁，即针对这种计算理性的不完全性，阅读拒绝这些逻辑并产生其他可能的城市未来的反叛调解的存在和意义。为此，我阅读了当地一个名为“停止扫荡西雅图”（Stop the sweep Seattle）的团体的数字行动主义和互助工作，将其视为这座城市的反叛调解，考察了他们在社交媒体上传播的视觉和叙事表现中提出的社会和空间诉求。我对西雅图“停止扫荡”内容的分析揭示了一个公共扫荡档案，它拒绝了主流的计算和贫困治理逻辑，并围绕团结、相互支持和原地不动，传播了已经存在的城市居住可能性。

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‘LIVE BETTER’: Smart City Expo as performative ideology formation “生活得更好”：智慧城市博览会作为表现性意识形态的形成

Digital Geography and Society

Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100144

Guy Baeten , Carina Listerborn , Pablo Miranda , Maja de Neergaard , Fredrik Torisson

Based on ethnographic observations, this article seeks to empirically illustrate how one of the main functions of the Smart City Expo in Barcelona in 2024 is to perform smartcity-as-ideology and its technological-solutionist stance that considerably narrows our understanding of urban problems and the solutions for it. The article introduces the Expo and describes our arrival and visit to the Expo. It provides empirical detail of the performativity of technological solutionism and its optimism, including the role of alliances, based on ethnographic observations. The main features of the technological-solutionist ideology underpinning the smart city are summarised and we conclude how this performativity is in line with Althusser's understanding of ideology.

基于民族志观察，本文试图从经验上说明2024年巴塞罗那智慧城市博览会的主要功能之一是如何表现智慧城市作为意识形态及其技术解决方案的立场，这大大缩小了我们对城市问题及其解决方案的理解。这篇文章介绍了世博会，描述了我们的到来和参观。它提供了基于民族志观察的技术解决方案主义及其乐观主义的实证细节，包括联盟的作用。本文总结了支撑智慧城市的技术解决方案主义意识形态的主要特征，并总结了这种表现如何符合阿尔都塞对意识形态的理解。

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