Eva Thulin

University of Gothenburg | GU · Department of Human and Economic Geography

We investigate whether office workers will continue to work from home after COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Office workers at Swedish public agencies were surveyed concerning the pre-pandemic experience of work from home, current practices, and willingness to continue work from home post-pandemic. Results indicate that willingness increased greatly...

The outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic affected the everyday lives of people. Recent studies have found that Internet use increased during lockdowns and helped people cope with spatial constraints on daily activity. However, long‐term implications on the digitalization of everyday life are still unknown. This study aims to improve the understanding...

Background Understanding how older adults spend time in moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA) is crucial to understanding healthy ageing. This study connects 24-h time-use diary records of the daily activities of a sample of Swedish older adults to energy intensities. The aim was to: i) estimate the prevalence of Swedish older ad...

We explore changes in everyday togetherness among upcoming cohorts of older people by examining their shared time use during the day. Theoretically, we elaborate on the existential condition of being co-present with others when performing activities.We compare cohorts using data from Swedish time-use surveys conducted in 2000/2001 and 2010/2011. R...

enWe explore to what extent ageing is associated with increased active time spent in natural environments. We anticipate this pattern, aligned with active ageing theory, as greater exposure to nature is associated with better health and well-being, including in old age. Following cohorts of elderly people over time using daily time-use survey data...

We examine how mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) and mediated interaction transform daily work activity in contemporary, extended telework. We expand on the concepts of mediated bundles and pacesetters to understand how the rhythms and employee control of work activity change. We draw on in‐depth interviews with 22 teleworker...

The time older people spend on various daily activities is critical for their health and well-being. New generations of older adults are increasingly expected to participate in ‘active’ activities. We explore shifts in active time use among upcoming cohorts of older people in Sweden. Recognizing the diverging meanings associated with the active age...

This article contributes to the geographical understanding of how mobile online presence enabled by smartphones transforms human spatial practices; that is, people’s everyday routines and experiences in time and space. Contrasting a mainstream discourse concentrating on the autonomy and flexibility of ubiquitous (anywhere, anytime) use of social me...

This study explores how changing conditions for home-based telework affect the quality of life and social sustainability of workers in terms of time pressure and time use control in everyday life. Changing conditions concern the spread of telework to new types of jobs of a more routine character, involving new practices of unregulated work and anyt...

From a joint temporal and socio-spatial perspective, we examine how young people’s everyday lives integrate with the use of digital media. Conceptually, we complement a standard displacement approach by advancing the role of time-space priorities, time elasticities, and online/offline intersections. We use micro-level data concerning youth aged 15–...

This chapter complements the time-geographic understanding of parallel activities and the implications of the background use of mobile digital media. We examine the incorporation of smart mobile technologies into people’s daily lives in the form of both background and foreground activities. Relying on an in-depth study of young people’s use of smar...

It is generally recognized that technological fixes alone cannot solve car-induced sustainability problems requiring measures to reduce car use. However, there is a knowledge gap concerning what we can learn from the experience of people who voluntarily refrain from car ownership. This paper aims to explore how everyday life is organized and percei...

This article examines how current widespread smartphone adoption and usage plays out in the everyday lives of young Swedes. Drawing on the framework of media and information and communication technology domestication, we examine the appropriation and incorporation of new mobile media as well as the redefined roles and meanings of traditional mobile...

The Internet facilitates new practices of social interaction at a distance, enabling online copresence and potentially relaxing social constraints on geographical mobility. Conceptualizing the role of online co-presence, we examine whether and how Internet-based social contacts influence young people's pre-migration considerations and decision maki...

Comparing the daily time use of three consecutive cohorts of Swedish young adults 20–29 years old, we analyse changes in free-time activity patterns over a period when private Information and Communications Technology (ICT) use was introduced, expanded, and went online. We use Swedish Time Use Survey (TUS) data from 1990/1991, 2000/2001 and 2010/20...

We explore from a time-use perspective how private use of computers and the Internet [information and communications technologies (ICTs)] is transforming everyday life. Data from the Swedish 2010–2011 Time-Use Survey reflect a situation in which Internet use has spread widely and become routine for many. Using covariate analysis, we analyse differe...

This study investigates the increased adoption of telework in Sweden between 2005 and 2012. It uses microlevel data from national surveys in order to ask where telework is being adopted and by whom. Results indicate that telework has become routine for over 20 per cent of all gainfully employed. Expansion is explained by a working life in transitio...

The need for a change of living environment is an often-expressed motive in surveys of migrants–in addition to better-defined social, educational, and economic reasons. Studies also suggest that environmental motives have become more frequent and influential over time. While ticking the ‘change of environment’ box of a questionnaire is easy, the un...

This paper contributes to the understanding of non-local migration in the digital age by investigating emerging virtual practices in the migration process. We focus on the initial inspiration phase that theoretically defines the attainable reach of individuals considering moving. Using a case-based approach, we distinguish how online information an...

The paper develops our understanding of how the Internet is integrated into migration processes and influences plans and decisions to move, drawing on in-depth interviews with urban young adults planning to move. Our analysis is based on people's own experiences and perceptions, focusing on the pre-migrant phase of interregional migration. Theoreti...

The Internet offers personalized and constantly updated information about opportunities and facilities at places far away. It stimulates distant personal contact and interaction via social media. Attention is thus increasingly being paid to the relationships between Internet use and traditional, physical forms of spatial interaction and movement. T...

The Internet offers personalized and constantly updated information about opportunities and facilities at places far away. It stimulates distant personal contact and interaction via social media. Attention is thus increasingly being paid to the relationships between Internet use and traditional, physical forms of spatial interaction and movement. T...

A time-geographic approach, including time–space diaries and in-depth interviews, is used to investigate the daily use and implications of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among a group of Swedish urban youth. We identify individual variations and nuances in ICT-based practices in our respondents’ social and spatial contexts. Using...

People´s capacity to perform various activities (as regards work, social communication, information, services and entertainment) while on the move is rapidly changing. The spread of mobile ICTs (laptop computers, cell phones, mp3-devices, wireless broadband and internet access etc.) combined with an ongoing ‘virtualisation’ of many everyday activit...

Emma sits alone in her home. It is Sunday afternoon, and she has some leisure time to spend before the night. What to do? Read a book or watch a movie? After some thought, she decides to see a film. How to proceed, then? Take the local bus to the cinema downtown, take a short walk to the local video shop and rent a movie, or simply stay at home and...

The virtual access offered by information and communications technology (ICT) has entered homes to an unprecedented degree - with disputed socio-spatial consequences. This paper explores whether people's use of time and space has changed with increasing access to ICT, and it considers the role of the home and the displacement of mobile and stationa...

Rapporten undersöker hur människors användning av tid för att resa och kommunicera omvandlas under ett drygt decennium fram till 2005 . Analysen sker mot bakgrund av människors ökade användning av informations- och kommunikationsteknik i kontakterna med omvärlden. Vi uppmärksammar särskilt hur relationerna mellan olika rörlighetsformer förändras sa...

This article explores how young people’s everyday patterns of social communication are affected by the increased use of mobile phones. We discuss three areas in which there are potential implications: (i) contact patterns and face-to-face interaction; (ii) other forms of spatial mobility; and (iii) individual planning and use of time. Empirically,...

Since the early 1990s an entirely new activity has entered the daily life of many households -the use of computers for on-line and off-line activities. It is anticipated that the resulting increased virtual mobility will have far-reaching consequences in terms of where, when, and how people use time and place for various activities. This paper expl...

This study explores how urban youth fit the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) into their everyday lives. Their virtual mobility may be lasting and have long-term effects on activity patterns and socio-spatial structures. We focus on the types of activities that become ICT based, and whether the extended networks fostered by vi...

Rörlighetens omvandling är en bok om människors accelererande förmåga att överbrygga geografiska avstånd. Vi analyserar aktuella förändringstendenser som omdanar samhället och våra liv. Det handlar om det ökande beroendet av snabba transporter i vardagslivet, transnationaliseringen av aktivitetsmönster, virtualiseringen av kontakterna med omgivning...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) may increase people's freedom to decide when, where, and how they wish to work and travel.With the aid of data from national surveys on the use of ICT by the Swedish population, our objective is to investigate the overall spread of ICT- based modes of work such as telework, mobile work, and teleconfe...

The purpose of this article is to give a comprehensive description and analysis of the relations between the communicative use of information technologies (ICT) on the one hand and physical travel on the other. Work-related activities, such as telework (telecommuting) and teleconferences, are especially considered. The extent to which they affect p...