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Personal Space, Changes In
The human density from the process of queueing and then boarding a train in Sé Station, above. The degree to which personal space is maintained at a pedestrian crossing in Shibuya visually extenuated by the umbrellas, below. Different cultures have different norms as to what constitutes an acceptable amount of personal space. How does this distance differ between contexts? In any given context what are acceptable 'excuses' to breach this space?
How do notions of personal space, privacy change as more about how we define ourselves and how others define us become digital? What are acceptable excuses to breach personal-digital space? How do you breach someone's personal-digital space?
Writing from Tokyo | August 14, 2006 | Permalink
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The boundaries of digital persona pretty much end at the edge of your laptop or other device. The fantasy projections on web sites or masks we show on myspaces are conceits of technologists. The real digital presence and true interaction is yet to come. Text blogging thrusts narrative with fingery dialog as an experimental boundary. Truth be told as reality is acted.
Posted by: Mark Beaulieu at March 12, 2007 12:45 AM