ABSTRACT
The subjective experience of place is highlighted by the perception of whether it is experienced as an insider or outsider. As an insider, being inside is experienced as knowing where one are, where one is surrounded by a place and is part of it. The experience of being an insider is characterized as a spatial identification with surroundings manifested as a 'sense of place'. Mobile and wireless technologies are a form of ubiquitous computing that create numerous opportunities for communicating in multiple and varied locations without requirement for a wired connection. In common with the proliferation of communications technologies, increased physical mobility has had a similar transformative effect on perception and behavior in spatial settings. The consequence of communications technologies in urban settings is that multiple social realities occur in one place. The immateriality of communications networks is not just a superficial outcome of the technology infrastructure; it is fundamentally intrinsic to the nature of data transmission in such networks.
