Virtual Space and Place

The factor that people debate about the most is what exactly is a space and what is a place. Tuan comments that space if freedom and place is security (Tuan, Y-F. 1977 p3-7). Which is true from within the online world and the outer world, moving through all different space while creating place with deciding what goes on within the space that we have chosen to claim as our own. Using my network of Tumblr (https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard) to demonstrate space and place in the context of the online world. 

The New York times. (2013) Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/technology/social-media-is-moving-into-creativity-like-tumblr.html 

If space is freedom, then the online world must be the epee center being able to maneuver our way through this world. Connecting with those from all around the world exploring their space, with every time we: like, follow, join, subscribe or even buying something there is the freedom roaming around. Doing as we please within that space not tied down to the any of the after effects or having to contribute part of our selves to that space. Just as on the social network the space that we conduct online business in dose give freedom to move as we please.

Place is a space that someone has taken ownership of "my place" is a phrase that can best describe this. It transcends from the real world into the online, like commented in the lecture this is a perspective (Kuttainen slide 4,2017), when having made an account, setting it to the way you like, deciding who gets to see and what it is to be seen is the perspective of taking a space and turning it into a place that is considered to be ours and we can do as we wish within that secure space.

The Spaces and places that encompass our lives, are all part of a perspective that we have about the site or network that we are involved in and how we move within them. Enforcing how Tuan describes these two places as one giving freedom, to go and do what we want, where we want and with whomever we want. No restrictions or boundaries that must be abided by it is only when that space if claimed by someone changing it from a space to a place, that is owned by someone. Making adjustment with the: settings, what we put up to be seen, who gets to see what is upon this page, including the beginning with the actual making of the account. Having what it all boils down to which is the perspective that what we are doing within the online network will either classify it as a free space or a secure place.

References:

https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard

Kuttainen, V. (2017). BM1002, Lecture 3 Space and Identity: Genre and Transformation week 3 notes [slide 4]. https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au

Tuan, Y-F. (1977). ‘Introduction’. In Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. (p.p.3-7). London: Edward Arnold.

The New York times. (2013) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/technology/social-media-is-moving-into-creativity-like-tumblr.html