Mobilising Poverty?: Mobile Phone Use and Everyday Spatial Mobility Among Low-Income Families in Santiago, Chile
Mobilising Poverty?: Mobile Phone Use and Everyday Spatial Mobility Among Low-Income Families in Santiago, Chile
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动员贫困？：智利圣地亚哥低收入家庭的手机使用和日常空间流动性
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2008
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Sebastián Ureta
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作者：
Sebastián Ureta
在过去的几十年里，身体流动性已成为当代社会的关键要素之一。这种流动性的中心地位还意味着一种新的社会排斥的发展，这种排斥是由于生活在一个人必须越来越多地“流动”才能获得商品和服务的社会环境中的问题造成的。在这篇文章中，基于实地调查进行了20个低收入家庭居民的城市的圣地亚哥，智利，我们研究的作用，移动的电话的使用，在这些人的日常生活中的物理流动性。通过对这些设备的使用和移动模式的分析，我们得出的结论是，研究的个人面临的限制和排斥，深刻地限制了这些设备所提供的潜在的“移动性”，而不是产生一个不断的移动性和“随时随地”的可用性的经验。
In the last few decades physical mobility has become one of the key elements of contemporary societies. This centrality of mobility also means the development of a new kind of social exclusion caused by the problems of living in a social context in which one has to be increasingly “on the move” to access goods and services. In this article, based on fieldwork conducted with 20 low-income family inhabitants of the city of Santiago, Chile, we study the role that mobile phone usage has in relation to physical mobility in the everyday lives of these individuals. Through an analysis of the pattern of usage and mobility of these devices, we arrive at the conclusion that rather than giving rise to an experience of constant mobility and “anytime–anywhere” availability, the individuals studied face limitations and exclusions that profoundly constrict the potential “mobility” afforded by these devices.