Digitalization and urban mobility in a non-metropolitan city: uberization in Campos dos Goytacazes/RJ

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https://doi.org/10.5216/ag.v17i2.76652

Abstract

The digitalization process of geographic space, the increasing use of the technical-scientific-informational environment, is demonstrated by the radical transformation of daily activities through the mediation of techniques of the digital age, such as the use of apps for transportation services. This digital layer, however, is integrated with socio-historical processes manifested in the geographic space, as we analyzed in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State. The launch of Uber in the city, offering transportation services via apps, worsened the already precarious situation of urban mobility, bringing together intense inequalities in the urban space characterized by residential segregation and the peripheralization of the low-income population. This new service has led to already existing urban problems, reproducing socio-spatial inequalities and contributing to the precarization of work.

Keywords: Urban mobility; precarization of work; uberization; Campos dos Goytacazes.

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Author Biography

Nathan Magalhães Dória, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. magalhaes_doria@id.uff.br

Geography from the Fluminense Federal University - Campos dos Goytacazes (2020); studied a degree in Geography at the same university, concluding in 2022. Master's student at the Graduate Program in Geography - Fluminense Federal University. With lines of research focused on the study of the Territory, with an emphasis on uberization; work precariousness; urban mobility; psychosphere and technosphere and neoliberalism.

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2023-08-20

How to Cite

DÓRIA, N. M.; DA SILVA, S. C. Digitalization and urban mobility in a non-metropolitan city: uberization in Campos dos Goytacazes/RJ. Ateliê Geográfico Journal, Goiânia, v. 17, n. 2, p. 246 –, 2023. DOI: 10.5216/ag.v17i2.76652. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/atelie/article/view/76652. Acesso em: 30 jun. 2024.

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Dossiê - Digitalização do território, plataformas digitais e hegemonia financeira