🧭 🏙️ Navigating the digital landscape of a real city
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🧭 🏙️ Navigating the digital landscape of a real city
Since its beginning, the web has been a laboratory for identity formation.37 With the relative comfort of physical distance, digital networks can let us experiment with how we want to be perceived, what we want to be called, and how we present ourselves.
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Can we tie together a web of these communal spaces to mimic exploring a city, where engaging feels like an everyday experience rather than a special isolated surprise?
Spencer Chang • tiny internets: sidewalks, geocaching, and more · tiny internets
Americans used to live within “place-based networks” of clubs, churches, schools, commerce, and recreation that overlapped, wrapping individuals in social support. Local networks protected individuals from isolation and loneliness.
Those networks have largely disappeared, replaced by networks based outside the local community. We shop and interact ... See more
Those networks have largely disappeared, replaced by networks based outside the local community. We shop and interact ... See more