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Moving between places
 others require actions by the workers beforehand. In other words, workers need to “shape and re-appropriate spatial infrastructure according to their needs and comfort” (Bilandzic, 2013, p. 223), which has earlier been referred to as place-making1. For example, by unpacking materials (Perry & Brodie, 2005) or, more broadly, by reaching out to others to create a sense of belonging in a new location (Polson, 2013). Previous studies indicate that these activities are necessary for nomadic and ubiquitous work (Mark & Su, 2010; Rossitto & Eklundh, 2007; Sørensen & Gibson, 2006), thus the extant literature has provided some insights into how mobile knowledge workers use a variety of places within their organizing practice. However, this assumes that places are a neutral resource to be used by the worker in any way desirable. However, the material environment – like any material object – affords and constrains worker’s behavior.
2.2.2 Digital nomads
Digital nomads draw on digital technologies to engage in digital work, achieve “mobility of resources” (Ciolfi & de Carvalho, 2014, p. 120) and combine this with traveling (Müller, 2016; Reichenberger, 2017). The main differences to other types of workers, such as mobile knowledge workers and expats, stem from the purpose underlying the worker’s mobility and the frequency of the worker’s mobility. Mobile knowledge workers are defined as workers who work „in multiple locations such as customer sites, company offices, their homes, vendor offices, planes, and hotels“ (Richman et al., 2001, p. 9). While this definition indicates that regular mobile knowledge workers have to travel for their work (Brown & O’Hara, 2003) and work determines the travel destinations, digital nomads choose to travel to 'design their life' by staying or moving on at any given
1 Place-making originates in the field of human geography (e.g., Brown & O’Hara, 2003; Cresswell, 2009). More recently, scholars have applied place-making within the disciplines of communication (e.g., Moores & Metykova, 2009; Polson, 2013), information science and CSCW (e.g., Humphry, 2013; Jarrahi & Thomson, 2017; Liegl, 2014; Rossitto, 2009) to research mobile knowledge work practices.
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