Abstract
In 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we began a research into working on digital delivery platforms. The disease containment policies confined us to our homes, as we watched from the windows as delivery men and women spread out into the desolate streets, so we decided to turn to an ethnography for the Internet. We navegated WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, following the traces of digital delivery work and its expression in the lives of delivery men and women in Bogotá, Colombia. The aim of the paper, then, is to methodologically and ethically address the ethnography conducted for the Internet through the case study. In particular, we present what we understood and how we did an Internet ethnography, how we fabricated the field, what type of observation we deployed and how we faced the ethical considerations of this approach.
| Translated title of the contribution | Between delivery platforms and riders’ networks: reflections from an Ethnography for the Internet during COVID-19 pandemic |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-13 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Revista de Antropología Social |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 24 Apr 2024 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
Keywords
- digital Ethnography
- Internet
- social networks
- field work
- reflexivity
- digital delivery platforms
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El rol de las Plataformas Digitales en el Desarrollo Sostenible: Un análisis de las condiciones de trabajo, salud y ambiente de repartidores digitales en el caso de Bogotá D.C, Colombia
Agudelo Londoño, S. M. (PI), Hernández Díaz, M. (CoI) & Suárez Morales, Z. B. (CoI)
01/02/20 → 31/01/22
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Digital Work in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic, the Case of Delivery Riders in Bogotá: I’d Rather Work with COVID than Starve
Suárez-Morales, Z. B., Hernández Díaz, M., Mantilla-León, L. C. & Agudelo Londoño, S. M., 10 Nov 2025, In: Revista Gerencia y Politicas de Salud. 24, p. 1-21 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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