Social networks, mobile lives and social inequalities

A central argument of much contemporary literature is that the advent of digital and mobile technologies creates new kinds of mobile lives, new socialities and new ways of relating to the self and others. In this paper the author specifically examines how mobile lives unfold through social networks, facilitating the forming and reforming of connections people have with others, near and distant. He argues that movement itself is not so significant. Its importance rather stems from how it enables people to be connected with each other, to meet and to remeet over time and across space. Movement makes connections. These connections form patterns or networks, which many commentators see as the critical feature of contemporary life. Much travel thus involves making new connections and extending one's network or sustaining one's existing networks.

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  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692311001542
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier
• Authors:
  • Urry, John
• Publication Date: 2012-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 24-30
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0966-6923
  • Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jtrangeo

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Equity; Mobile communication systems; Networks; Social impacts
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01368877
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 2012 10:26AM