Cyberspace and the World We Live in

Robins, Kevin

doi:10.1177/1357034x95001003008

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“…Authors such as Hayles (1999) and Robins (2000) have criticized this position by emphasizing the connections between cyberspace and our physical world.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Cyber to Hybrid

Silva

2006

Space and Culture

492

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Hybrid spaces arise when virtual communities (chats, multiuser domains, and massively multi-player online role-playing games), previously enacted in what was conceptualized as cyberspace, migrate to physical spaces because of the use of mobile technologies as interfaces. Mobile interfaces such as cell phones allow users to be constantly connected to the Internet while walking through urban spaces. This article defines hybrid spaces in the light of three major shifts in the interaction between mobile technology and spaces. First, it investigates how the use of mobile technologies as connection interfaces blurs the traditional borders between physical and digital spaces. Second, it argues that the shift from static to mobile interfaces brings social networks into physical spaces. Finally, it explores how urban spaces are reconfigured when they become hybrid spaces. For this purpose, hybrid spaces are conceptualized according to three distinct but overlapping trends: hybrid spaces as connected spaces, as mobile spaces, and as social spaces.

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“…Authors such as Hayles (1999) and Robins (2000) have criticized this position by emphasizing the connections between cyberspace and our physical world.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Cyber to Hybrid

Silva

2006

Space and Culture

492

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“…The places we used to meet, talk and swap information are being reclaimed for other purposes; the cafe Â is replaced by the impersonal mall. Through the Internet, we will be able to form new forms of communities based upon our interests and affinity, rather than coincidence of location (Robins, 1995). Here, individuals will be able to shape their own community through real choices in whom they interact with;`we will be able to forge our own places from among the many that exist, not by creating new places but by simply choosing from the menu of those available' (Jones, 1995: 11).…”

Section: Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While it is clear that many commentators suggest that interactions via computer-mediated communication do form online communities, others are beginning to question the nature of this community and if it can be called a community at all. For example, Robins (1995) suggests the use of the Internet does not mean we will be able to recover the meaning and the experience of community which Rheingold feels are dissolving in real space. It is a misnomer to equate communication directly into communion and community (Robins, 1995).…”

Section: Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Robins (1995) suggests the use of the Internet does not mean we will be able to recover the meaning and the experience of community which Rheingold feels are dissolving in real space. It is a misnomer to equate communication directly into communion and community (Robins, 1995). For example, while some people would claim to be part of a virtual community the vast majority of cyberspace users are transient, moving between different spaces.…”

Section: Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards geographies of cyberspace

Kitchin

1998

Progress in Human Geography

184

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This article uses two cyberspatial technologies, namely, the Internet (the global network of connected computers), and its close cousins, intranets (closed, private corporate telematic networks), to illustrate the ways in which geographers have engaged, and could engage, with studies of cyberspace. Virtual reality technologies are not discussed explicitly as, in the main, they are still at an exploratory and experimental stage. The article has three central aims: first, to introduce cyberspace and its implications to a wider geographical audience; secondly, to provide a critical review of current empirical and theoretical work relating to cyberspatial technologies by geographers; and, thirdly, to introduce geographers to the current debates and empirical research of scholars from other disciplines and suggest how geographers can build upon and advance these studies. An agenda for future research is outlined and an approach in which to ground future studies is forwarded. It is argued that spatiality is central to understanding cyberspace.

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“…This sense of liberation is attributed to the assumption that Internet users have a choice of what they view and consume. However, the very parameters of choice are in fact implicitly contained by those who choose to post information, which contains liberation (Robins, 1995). Deployment of technology to create and distribute a video must be seen as aligned with a form of scrutiny that reflects the operation of disciplinary power.…”

Section: Surveillancementioning

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Spatial Transgressions, Anxiety, and the Discourse of Pussy Riot's "Punk Prayer

Schroeder¹

2016

URCEU

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The 2012 performance of Pussy Riot's "Punk Prayer" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, their subsequent release of an extended and edited video, and their ultimate arrest for committing "hooliganism" generated a large amount of interest both within Russia and on an international scale. While Western accounts and analyses were marked by their tendency to frame the political content, Russian responses were framed by references to tradition and history. Significantly, there was disagreement amongst the latter with regard to the activist value of Pussy Riot. I argue that this ambiguity arises from a profound socio-spatial anxiety that was triggered by the Pussy Riot performances but was never examined. At the core of the anxiety lies a discomfort with the implications of Pussy Riot's spatial transgressions because the techniques used to engage in activism ultimately invoked regimes of vision and technology to exert power over the public that implicitly resembles surveillance techniques used by the very object of criticism, the Russian regime.

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Cyberspace and the World We Live in

Cited by 89 publications

References 13 publications

From Cyber to Hybrid

From Cyber to Hybrid

Towards geographies of cyberspace

Spatial Transgressions, Anxiety, and the Discourse of Pussy Riot's "Punk Prayer

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