Uber mobilities, algorithms, and consumption: Politicizing ethical reflection

@article{DelNido2022UberMA,
  title={Uber mobilities, algorithms, and consumption: Politicizing ethical reflection},
  author={Juan Manuel Del Nido},
  journal={Mobilities},
  year={2022},
  volume={17},
  pages={729 - 744},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:252247706}
}
Abstract Based on an ethnography of Uber’s arrival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this article uses a political economy approach to think politically about ethical reflections concerned with what good mobilities are, how they should be governed and what kinds of relations they entail. I found that particular understandings of what algorithms were and did, and how, however spurious, superficial or derivative, triangulated the differential salience and (re)production of juridical technicalities… 
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