ABSTRACT
Paddington Station is both a space; literally a location and a functional designation as a train station, and also a place; as the many socially constructed encounters and activities demonstrate. Places becomes part of trajectories that are co-ordinated before, during and after through social networks, such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp. Many theorists have used alarming language to highlight the problem of the loss of sense of place as result of network infrastructures and connections. Networks of flows do not just operate at a global scale, but create local structures and frameworks with local and very much situated effects. The sociality of networked place, how it contributes to community networks is also explored, and consequently how new typologies emerge. Foursquare places are tagged with a global positioning systems co-ordinate, so that they have a defined geographical position. Network technologies, which whilst crucial in supporting the mobility and flux, are also fixed networks that must be embedded in space and place.
