Personal Mobilities in the Advanced Digital Age: Challenges, Routines, and Structuration Processes

The book focuses on recent changes in personal mobility driven by technological advances, aiming for a structurationist interpretation of personal mobility, thus exploring ongoing tensions between societal mobility structures, on the one hand, and human agency or individual mobility practices, on the other. This book primarily examines challenging structures for the virtual mobility of individuals, mostly through smartphones, as digital technologies advance, and on the consequent emergence of new personal mobility patterns in everyday activities such as work, networking, and shopping. Therefore, the book outlines the evolving nature of personal mobility and societal change in the third decade of the 21st century. Contemporary structural dimensions involved in the pursuit of personal mobility include technology and networks as allocative resources, and distance, time, compulsion, work, regulation, and volatility as authoritative ones. Personal Mobilities in the Advanced Digital Age will be valuable as a primary or supplementary resource in mobility courses at all study levels, notably for geographers and sociologists, and it may serve as a valuable tool for research projects across various areas of mobility studies. It will also prove to be helpful for urban planners, transportation planners, and Internet specialists in their practical professional work.