ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the consequences for spatial justice of the digital permeation of the urban landscape, attempting to move towards a socio-spatial theory of critical agency in the digital city. It provides empirical starting point, the use of urban space in social media posts to display and contest status, the spatial distribution of these posts, and their relation to network formations. The chapter examines how widespread the tendencies towards reinforcing existing social distinctions and norms across other social media platforms. It also examines Instagram practices and their cumulative effects in the cities of Amsterdam and Kristiansand. The chapter argues that Instagram users “weave webs of uneven relations, with some posts and users receiving a lot of recognition and acquiring central positions, and other posts and users taking more marginal positions”. Instagram users selectively and creatively reassemble the city as they mobilise specific places in the city as stages in their posts.
