A continuació publicaré ressenyes bibliogràfiques i cites textuals d'autors que han investigat el mateix tema i han fet esment dels aeroports.
"This pattern of travelling is the largest peaceful movement of people across borders. Such movement moreover show little sign of significantly abating even with September 11’s nightmare scenario of passenger planes used as bombs. Being mobile has become a ‘way of life’ for very significant numbers, with the motorway, the hotel and the airport lounge familiar places of contemporary experience. Very different mobile peoples intermittently encounter each other within ‘non-places of modernity’ (Augé 1995). Pico Iyer describes the growth of those with a ‘global soul’, those mobility pioneers who are almost blasé with this constant ‘life on the move’." (p. 158)
"Such non-linear outcomes are generated by a technological system moving across what Gladwell terms ‘tipping points’ (2000). Tipping points involve three notions: that events and phenomena are contagious, that little causes can have big effects, and that changes can happen not in a gradual linear way but dramatically at a moment when the system switches, as with the consumption of fax machines or mobile phones or air journeys. At the moment that the system switches every office needs a fax machine or every mobile person needs a mobile phone or every air passenger needs another airport to land at. Wealth derives here not from scarcity as in conventional economics but from abundance. Each fax machine, mobile, email address and airport, is so much more valuable if there are many others so enabling new connections to be formed and extended (Gladwell 2000: 272–3)." (p. 162)
"And much mobility produces its own social spaces that orchestrate new forms of social life, such as stations, hotels, motorways, resorts, airports, leisure complexes, cosmopolitan cities, beaches, galleries and so on. Social life is full of multiple and extended connections often across long distances, organized through certain nodes or hubs within which social life is formed and reformed. However, there are signs that this academic neglect is changing. There is a ‘mobility turn’ spreading into and transforming the social sciences, transcending the dichotomy between transport research and social research, putting the social into travel and connecting different forms of transport with the complex patterns now taken by much social experience conducted at-a-distance (while Andy Warhol had a unique perspective: ‘Today my favourite kind of atmosphere is the airport atmosphere. . . Airplaces and airports have my favourite kind of food service, my favourite kind of bathrooms, my favourite peppermint Life Savers, my favourite kinds of entertainment, my favourite loudspeaker address systems, my favourite conveyor belts, my favourite graphics and colors, the best security checks, the best views, the best perfume shops, the best employees, and the best optimism’)" (p. 172, notes)
"This pattern of travelling is the largest peaceful movement of people across borders. Such movement moreover show little sign of significantly abating even with September 11’s nightmare scenario of passenger planes used as bombs. Being mobile has become a ‘way of life’ for very significant numbers, with the motorway, the hotel and the airport lounge familiar places of contemporary experience. Very different mobile peoples intermittently encounter each other within ‘non-places of modernity’ (Augé 1995). Pico Iyer describes the growth of those with a ‘global soul’, those mobility pioneers who are almost blasé with this constant ‘life on the move’." (p. 158)
"Such non-linear outcomes are generated by a technological system moving across what Gladwell terms ‘tipping points’ (2000). Tipping points involve three notions: that events and phenomena are contagious, that little causes can have big effects, and that changes can happen not in a gradual linear way but dramatically at a moment when the system switches, as with the consumption of fax machines or mobile phones or air journeys. At the moment that the system switches every office needs a fax machine or every mobile person needs a mobile phone or every air passenger needs another airport to land at. Wealth derives here not from scarcity as in conventional economics but from abundance. Each fax machine, mobile, email address and airport, is so much more valuable if there are many others so enabling new connections to be formed and extended (Gladwell 2000: 272–3)." (p. 162)
"And much mobility produces its own social spaces that orchestrate new forms of social life, such as stations, hotels, motorways, resorts, airports, leisure complexes, cosmopolitan cities, beaches, galleries and so on. Social life is full of multiple and extended connections often across long distances, organized through certain nodes or hubs within which social life is formed and reformed. However, there are signs that this academic neglect is changing. There is a ‘mobility turn’ spreading into and transforming the social sciences, transcending the dichotomy between transport research and social research, putting the social into travel and connecting different forms of transport with the complex patterns now taken by much social experience conducted at-a-distance (while Andy Warhol had a unique perspective: ‘Today my favourite kind of atmosphere is the airport atmosphere. . . Airplaces and airports have my favourite kind of food service, my favourite kind of bathrooms, my favourite peppermint Life Savers, my favourite kinds of entertainment, my favourite loudspeaker address systems, my favourite conveyor belts, my favourite graphics and colors, the best security checks, the best views, the best perfume shops, the best employees, and the best optimism’)" (p. 172, notes)
"The importance of meetings can also be seen with new ‘mobile offices’. Laurier and Philo examine how work can often now be conducted in cars that are transformed into an ‘office’ through being combined with the mobile (2001; Laurier 2002). Work materials are synchronized and connected up to other company members while ‘on the road’. And these workers are on the road to meet clients. This meeting occurs face-to-face at particular workplaces or in ‘thirdspaces’ such as motorway service stations, roadside cafes, pubs, restaurants and so on (This explains the way that during the day service stations, as well as airport lounges and hotel lobbies, are full of ‘meetings’ where colleagues or associates come together often to work on documents, to engage in what Boden calls ‘Talk, talk, talk and more talk’)" (p. 172, notes)
John Urry. Social networks, travel and talk. British Journal of Sociology, Volume 54, Number 2 (June 2003), pp. 155-175,
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=E60F0NAV121WEV55DU2J
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0007131032000080186
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