ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the impacts that digital technology and digital public space in particular, have on modern culture and human behaviour. Digital technologies are not isolated from our physical existence, and are in fact closely interlinked with the spaces and places in which we live our lives. Digital archives often invite spatial metaphors, such as ‘navigating’ a file system or learning the ‘geography’ of where things are catalogued. Purely digital spaces, or even remotely accessed physical ones, must by necessity include the notion of moving from one space to another; hence phrases such as logging on, jacking in and so on. One particularly common type of digital/physical hybrid space implementation is the near ubiquity of digital display screens that are becoming interwoven with the fabric of urban spaces. The emergence of new digital practices is just one example of digital public space as a facet of working culture, and work space itself is but one aspect of our physical environment.
