Travel, technology, and hybrid mobilities: Interview with Jennie Germann Molz

Amanda  Arrais; Ana Carolina Padua Machado; Maurício Piatti Lages; Jennie Germann Molz

doi:10.20336/rbs.975

Autores

Amanda Arrais Universidade de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3441-7619
Ana Carolina Padua Machado Universidade de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-6502
Maurício Piatti Lages Universidade de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5359-6571
Jennie Germann Molz College of the Holy Cross

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.975

Resumo

Jennie Germann Molz é professora de Sociologia no College of the Holy Cross em Worcester, Massachusetts, onde ministra cursos sobre teoria social, viagens e turismo, tecnologias móveis, cidadania global e emoção. Tivemos a oportunidade de entrevistá-la durante a SPMob 2023: Quarta Escola de Ciência Avançada em Mobilidades, realizada de 13 a 21 de junho de 2023, na Universidade de São Paulo e na Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, evento do qual ela foi uma das principais palestrantes. Nesta entrevista, Germann Molz enfatiza a necessidade de superarmos a visão moralista da tecnologia. Em lugar de o determinismo tecnológico, ela propõe o conceito de affordances (em tradução livre, potencialidades de uso) alegando que, embora a tecnologia proporcione certas formas de nos envolvermos com ela, temos algum grau de agência para determinar como a iremos utilizar e integrá-la em nossas vidas. Em seus trabalhos, ela descreve as muitas e complexas maneiras em que viajantes se envolvem com tecnologias de comunicação e networking enquanto estão em movimento. As interações mediadas tecnologicamente não resultam necessariamente numa sociabilidade frágil, acrescenta ela, uma vez que podem suscitar novas formas de solidariedade, apoio emocional e um sentimento de união ou pertença.

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Biografia do Autor

Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross

Jennie Germann Molz is a Professor of Sociology. She received her PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University in England where she subsequently held a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe).

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