ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on primarily on the social and cultural implications of daily life interwoven with digital technology and describes how digital technologies have become enfolded into the spatial flows of socio-cultural life in ways that appear at once, seamless and disjointed. It expands on R. Kitchin and M. Dodge's thesis of code/space and coded space and its relation to a processual understanding of place, for rarely is their influential theory collated with those concerning place. The chapter examines the ways in which code/space and coded space can affect such constellations in everyday practice and pay particular attention to how a sense of place—;;the key experiential and perhaps most porous element of place's constitution—;;can be affected in configurations of code/space and coded space. It suggests that the socio-technical constitution of digital technology and culture has the capacity to produce novel socio-spatial relations and describes how digital technologies can foster novel forms of culture, sociality, and entertainment in everyday practice.