Changing mobilities in a digital world

Recent technological advancements, particularly in digitalization, have engendered new mobility patterns within society. As individuals, we traverse the world physically encapsulated in a mobility apparatus that relies on digital technology; we orient ourselves in the world through digital media, and depend increasingly on mobile devices.

In this context, digital technologies have come to function as a secondary "skin" through which we engage with both proximate and distant people and places while traveling. At Geomedia, we study how the digital world of media technologies not only influences and steers our mobilities but also facilitates or constrains various forms of physical and virtual travel.

This dynamic potentially creates stratified and privileged patterns of mobility, contingent upon factors such as class, nationality, gender, and other societal classifications.