Electronically Mediated Sense of Place

doi:10.1017/9781108769471.022

19 - Electronically Mediated Sense of Place

from Part VI - Technological and Legal Transformations

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 July 2021

Edward Relph

Edited by

Christopher M. Raymond ,

Andrés Di Masso and

Christopher M. Raymond: Affiliation:
University of Helsinki, Finland
Lynne C. Manzo: Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle
Daniel R. Williams: Affiliation:
USDA Forest Service, Colorado
Andrés Di Masso: Affiliation:
Universitat de Barcelona
Timo von Wirth: Affiliation:
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

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This chapter is an examination of the various ways senses of place have been changed by the development of electronic media since the invention of the telegraph, with particular attention to developments since the invention of the World Wide Web in 1990. Impacts of electronic communications on five aspects of sense of place are considered. Neurological and ontological aspects are largely immune, but individual, social and public aspects are affected in ways that have been variously interpreted as diminishing sense of place by distracting us from our surroundings, or alternatively as enhancing it with rich data about places and increased global awareness. However, as electronic media have become increasingly pervasive, concerns have been raised about their role as agents of corporate power and their role in surveillance of places.

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sense place electronic media telegraph Internet surveillance

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Information: Changing Senses of Place
Navigating Global Challenges
, pp. 247 - 258

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108769471.022 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2021

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