Journal article
Affective platform urbanism: Changing habits of digital on-demand consumption
D Bissell
Geoforum | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2020
Abstract
This paper develops geographic debates on platform urbanism by exploring the overlooked consumption practices that digital on-demand platforms have generated. Extending recent work on the affectivity of platforms which explain how specific bodily experiences are ‘engineered’ into the design of platforms, the paper argues that the onflow of urban life can complicate these logics. In the context of on-demand food delivery platforms, the paper moves beyond the explanatory logic of convenience to provide a richer understanding of how digital on-demand food delivery platforms might be changing everyday habits in the city for people in different circumstances. Through analysis of qualitative inter..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
I'm very grateful to the project participants for sharing their on-demand experiences. Thanks to Gay Hawkins and Donald McNeill for the invitation to present an earlier version of this paper at a workshop at Western Sydney University on City Habits in late 2019. I'm grateful to the workshop attendees for their perceptive feedback. The paper has been further improved by generous comments from two referees as well as Harvey Neo's editorial guidance. This research is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT170100059).