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Abstract
This article examines the role of media in the construction of place within the context of cultural heritage and postmodern flows. Both physical and virtual place involve actors, objects and actions that establish subjectivity, encode time, and frame space. Both environments are dynamic and generate meanings that are relevant to the actor, contextualizing the spaces in which she/he acts. From a post-stucturalist perspective, place can be viewed as a composite of interwoven texts – each discursive, contingent, ambiguous and contested. It is argued that virtual place is constructed through the embodied subjectivity of the actor, grounded by inter-subjective discourse and the texts they form within and beyond the physical dimensions of place.
Notes
This definition was drawn from Robin Citation(2006).
This definition was drawn from Stoecker Citation(2004).
According to The Nielsen Co., Facebook drew more than 110 million visitors in the USA in December (with nearly 500 million active users worldwide); MySpace was second with nearly 60 million; Twitter attracted roughly 20 million, and sites such as Classmates and Linkedln pulled in about 10 million each (della Carva, Citation2010).