Moralizing Disruption: China’s Ride-Hailing Revolution

Technological disruption;Ride-hailing;Platform economy;Digital technology;Urban infrastructure;Morality;Urban studies;China

Frost, Shuang Lu ; Herzfeld, Michael,Greenhalgh, Susan,Kleinman, Arthur

University:Havard University

Department:Anthropology

关键词: Technological disruption;    Ride-hailing;    Platform economy;    Digital technology;    Urban infrastructure;    Morality;    Urban studies;    China;   

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美国|英语

来源: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard

【 摘 要 】

This dissertation offers an ethnographic exploration of China’s ride-hailing revolution, and a narrative of the emergence, contestation, and moralization of ride-hailing in five different local communities. Through the stories of corporate managers, on-demand laborers, taxi drivers, and speculative middlemen, Moralizing Disruption reveals the visible and invisible host of actors that have shaped the particular evolution of ride-hailing technologies as well as the more general processes of disruption in China’s transportation industry. It shows how these actors, in the context of their respective local communities, form shared moral values towards disruptive technologies and how, against the backdrop of a rapidly changing society, they make sense of and negotiate their changing worlds.