By Arthur Henden
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Social media has become
the norm for a lot of people – an almost fanatical obsession – much like
grabbing the newspaper in the morning and casually flicking through to catch up
on yesterday’s events. People now head for their phone first thing in the
morning to check up on what is happening in the world, be it in politics,
general news, or just what their friends and family have been up to.
In Week 3 Tuan wrote of
three 'human dispositions'; the biological facts, relations of space and place,
and experience or knowledge. Focussing on the latter
of the three, Tuan writes that an ‘experience can either be a direct and
physical encounter, or a non-physical or conceptual experience’, such as a
text, or experience through social mediums like. To briefly engaging in
themes of sense and place in a virtual space I would like to look at how we
approach the ‘virtual world’. Facebook in particular is a widely used platform
for social networking by many around the world, but what is it that attracts us
to these virtual places? Tuan’s piece captured a moment in time where two
scientists visited the castle depicted in Shakespeare’s Hamlet in depicted and
noted that upon immersing themselves in that world, while physically being
there, it gave them a very different depiction of the world around them, in
this sense the castle.
I find it particularly
intriguing personally when I see pictures of a friend’s holiday on Facebook,
and then when I see them and talk about their holiday with them I can imagine
myself in their photos and their surrounds. In Week 3’s lecture it was said
that “we can experience a space directly or conceptually” (Luyn, 2015). In a
sense, you could share the holiday with them just by seeing an image, or
reading a post on their Facebook wall.
References
Sydney Morning Herald. (2014). Social media
obsession just a crave for love and attention. Retrieved from http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/social-radar/social-media-obsession-just-a-crave-for-love-and-attention-20141024-11bdue.html
Tuan, Y. (1977). Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. London, Great
Britain: Edward Arnold.
Luyn, A. (2015) BA1002: Our Space: Networks, Narratives, and the Making of Place,
Lecture 3: Space and Identity: Genre and Transformation. [PowerPoint
slides]. Retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au
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