ABSTRACT
The "classical" technology of electronic mediatization, the landline telephone, needed almost a century to turn door-to-door into place-to-place communication. This chapter contributes to knowledge on broader social and spatial implications of mediatization—;;the (re)making of everyday geographies—;;in a developing context and abstract from this and to contribute to an empirical and conceptual body on the linkages of mediatization1 and translocal living. It provides brief overview of the setting in Bangladesh and the respective underlying theoretical framework and methodology. The chapter illustrates the relevant processes of change in communication and spatial relations, with empirical examples, and conclude with a reflection on what this implies for spatial and social processes. It also illustrates three underlying processes of socio-spatial change that are associated with mediatization: a translocalization, a re-regionalization, and a shift in power relations. They relate to, but also go beyond the themes that Julia Pfaff identifies in geographical research on mobile communication: "presence-absence", "public-private", and "freedom-control".
