People Who Are Woven in the Web:Labor Spatial Practices Constructed by Mobile Navigational Maps
In a mediatized society,the spatial-temporal conceptions of humans are highly correlated with technological media,and the connotation and extension of labor and labor processes change accordingly.This study focuses on the nested set of relationships between the platform's built-in mobile navigation maps and online taxi drivers labor processes,paying attention to the spatial practices and spatial-temporal cognition produced by the relationships.Under the collusion between the platform and the mobile navigation map,the drivers'spatial practices are characterized by the embodiment of labor,the spatialization of time,and the spatial flattening in the labor space of the platform,the digital space of the navigation map,and the physical space of the city.The digitally intermediated urban space and spatial practices can hardly construct a stable"sense of place".