This article focuses on the 'small moments' of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane. Drawing on a qualitative GIS analysis of people's walking, driving and ride-hailing in urban Guangzhou (a megacity in south China), this article maps the complex and dynamic anxieties from a social practice perspective. It argues that anxieties of daily mobilities are entangled with digital practices of reducing, removing or producing future uncertainties, as well as those of generating instant confusion of the digital/data during the management and organisation of familiar routines. The key findings of this study suggest that anxieties of digitally mediated mobilities are situated knowledges generated by the temporalities, spatialities and socialities of daily movements. These complex, contingent and dynamic anxieties are coped with improvisationally. These findings can bring new insights into mobilities studies by constructing an understanding of the co-constitution of embodied and emotional movements and mobile technologies in the digital mundane.

Chen Liu

Jiayan Chen

Mobilities

Mobilities examines both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private spaces, and the travel of material things in everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, present new challenges for the coordination and governance of mobilities and for the protection of mobility rights and access. This has elicited many new research methods and theories relevant for understanding the connections between diverse mobilities and immobilities.

The journal Mobilities examines both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more localized processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private spaces, and the travel of material things in everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, present new challenges for the coordination and governance of mobilities and for the protection of mobility rights and access. This has elicited many new research methods and theories relevant for understanding the connections between diverse mobilities and immobilities.

《Mobilities》期刊探讨了人、物体、资本和信息在全球范围内的大规模流动，以及日常交通、公共和私人空间的移动，以及日常生活中物质的旅行等更为本地化的过程。近年来，交通和通信基础设施的发展，以及新的社会和文化流动实践，给流动性协调和治理、流动权利和获取的保护带来了新的挑战。这些变化催生了许多新的研究方法和理论，帮助我们理解不同流动性与静止状态之间的联系。

Mapping the anxiety of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane

It is argued that anxieties of daily mobilities are entangled with digital practices of reducing, removing or producing future uncertainties, as well as those of generating instant confusion of the digital/data during the management and organisation of familiar routines.

Category	Quartile
社会学	2
社会学, 地理学	3
社会学, 交通运输	3

Mapping the anxiety of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane

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