ABSTRACT
In theoretical analyses as well as in the practices of digital media, ideas about generalised connectivity, freedom of mobility and spatial boundlessness as a consequence of the extensive diffusion of new technologies play a big role. The various geographical metaphors and analogies employed to describe such aspects (Adams, 1997; Taylor, 1997; Brown and Lauriel, 2005; Serfaty, 2005; Lemos 2008; Kitchin and Dodge, 2011), from the electronic frontier and information superhighway to network topology, typically work to reveal what digital space has either in common or in contrast with physical space; they rarely serve to cast a different light on the way the space of new information and communication technologies could mobilise our imagination of space in general.
