From Nomadic Work to Nomadic Leisure Practice

Abstract

Mobility has long been a central concern in research within the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) community, particularly when it comes to work and how being on the move calls for reorganizing work practices. We expand this line of work with a focus on nomadic leisure practices. Based on interviews with eleven participants, we present a study that illuminates how digital technologies are used to shape and structure long-distance cycling. Our main analysis centers on bike touring as a nomadic leisure practice and on how it offers a radical departure from traditional modes of structuring work and life, and thus, complicates the relationship between work and leisure. We complement this with an account of managing the uncertainties of nomadicity by focusing on participants' experiences with arranging overnighting and network hospitality. We offer this study, firstly, as one response to the call for more diversity in the empirical cases drawn upon in theorizing nomadic work and leisure practices, but more productively, as an opportunity to reflect upon the temporal and spatial logics of digital technologies and platforms and how they frame our attitudes towards the interplay between work and leisure.

Disconnection: Designs and Desires

“…However, digital technology is reconfigured when taken out of its ordinary, often urban and indoor, context. Long-term outdoor activities are thus particularly well positioned to reveal how digital technologies can serve to lock us into traditional work rhythms but also enable breaking away from them (Ferreira et al, 2019). By illustrating what happens when everyday rhythms are disrupted, these activities allow us to imagine more purposeful and diverse ways of managing (dis)connection .…”

Provocations from #vanlife

“…Technology in mobility has been the theme for a lot of recent studies and workshops in HCI [15,18,26,27,38,38]. The term "mobility" is used to discuss several topics.…”

“…Previous work in HCI has investigated non-traditional homes, either as new areas for design [10,11,43] or to look at the motivations and implications of nomadic homes or work practices [8,15,33,34,39]. For example, Rossitto et al [35] investigated literature around nomadic cultures, and noted a requirement for more diverse papers beyond just nomadic work.…”

SWOT Analysis Nomadic Tourism as Millennial Friendly Natural Tourist Destination Development Strategy (Case Study: Glamping De Loano, Purworejo)

“…Nomadic tourism is a new tourism style where tourists can stay for a certain period in a tourist destination with portable and mobile amenities (Kemenpar, 2019). Nomadic tourism has its uniqueness that is focused on unpopular location, vacation practices that include places that are hard to reach, create trip and holiday preferences that come from travel experiences (Ferreira, Helms, Brown, & Lampinen, 2019). It has its specialty which is flexibility and surprises (Ferreira et al, 2019).…”

“…Nomadic tourism has its uniqueness that is focused on unpopular location, vacation practices that include places that are hard to reach, create trip and holiday preferences that come from travel experiences (Ferreira, Helms, Brown, & Lampinen, 2019). It has its specialty which is flexibility and surprises (Ferreira et al, 2019).…”