Virtual mobilities

Question 1

What is network capital and what does it consist of?

Answer 1

‘Network capital is the capacity to engender an sustain social relations with those people who are not necessarily proximate and which generates emotional, financial and practical benefits’. - (Urry, 2012)

• Travel documents, money etc to enable movement
• Hospitality at a distance
• Movement capacities
• Location free information and contact points
• Communication devices
• Safe and secure meeting places
• Access to multiple systems
• Time and resources to manage when there is system failure

Question 2

In what ways is software increasingly implicated in driving?

Answer 2

Driving as a practice thoroughly permeated by software and ICT’s
Shift from driver being disciplined through institutions and symbols to discipline by automated management systems
Road environments: increasingly governed by ‘smart media’ – monitor and regulate the road in real time