The City on Your Phone: The Space between the Digital and the Urban

Digital platforms have become commonplace in our daily lives. Many of these applications are used to live in the city. Where to eat, how to rent a house, how to move around the city, how to meet new people, how to order food delivery, or which social networks to use to know the most visited places in a neighborhood are just a few examples of how the city and digital platforms are intertwined. The use of these platforms and the interaction between users creates a new digital field with its own characteristics. This implies a rethinking of the city as a palimpsest in which new virtual spaces are superimposed on urban space.

The emergence of digital nomads has led to a greater intensity in the use of these digital platforms and, ultimately, in the constitution of these new virtual spaces. The aim of this paper is, first, to address the category of digital nomads itself. Second, to determine how their practices construct these new hybrid spaces and how they relate to urban space. We will also address how these practices are inscribed within the framework of global urban transformation processes that contribute to the creation of new dynamics of socio-spatial segregation.