‘No-One Is Where They Are’: Virtual Time and Space

Mobile networked communication fosters a form of virtual time and space, which is superimposed onto territorial space: this is the new time and space of the early twenty-first century. Social media conducted through smartphones and other devices has created a new form of virtual space, in which individual users are frequently engaged. Individuals connected to the network via smartphone, tablet or laptop may be physically present but are in effect absent, engaged in a virtual conversation. As a result, the physical world is increasingly overlaid by the virtual network sphere: space is an overlapping of the virtual onto the geographical. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.