ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses why it is so pervasive to talk about intangible digital experience using the language of physical space, and how discussion of ‘inhabiting’ the digital public space must also consider how these intangible digital information spaces affects our lives. Some lifestyle and behavioural changes enabled by digital connectivity might be due entirely to the disconnection from specific times and locations, rather than the activities themselves being quicker or easier. Digital implementations of the kind of externalisation of memory are very popular. Storage of information in a digital format is much more flexible and malleable than creation of physical objects, because it is so much easier to return to a digital object and make changes to it. The digital public space provides many new opportunities for communities. The digital profile can represent an idealised version of one’s ‘real’ identity, or can be subverted to create pseudonymity, or multiple personality facets.
