ABSTRACT
A growing number of workers and students use mobile technologies like cellphones, laptops, or smartphones to do work or leisure-related activities in cafés, libraries, public spaces, parks, and even transports or waiting spaces like train stations and bus stops. These spaces of socialization and activity, called third places, are constituting intermediate activity spaces between the first place, the home, and the second, the workplace or the school. Using quantitative data, this chapter explores who the users of mobile technology are in Québec metropolitan area and what are the characteristics of individuals who use these technologies to work or study on the move.
