ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book takes some of the theoretical insights developed by Jessop and other critical theorists of cultural political economy, and applies and develops them to investigate what is sometimes referred to as the digital public sphere, or just digital publics. Digital technology naturally lends itself to circulating debates, documents, information, images, video footage and so forth, across the globe. Many believe, for example, that we live in digital networked times in which normal boundaries associated with modern societies have become blurred and liquid-like. Computer networks, airports, roads, mobile phones and so on are both moored to specific spaces such as an office and they are free of these moorings to move across other connected nodes and bring to life new spatial relations with other human and non-human bodies and objects.
