Article:
The Geography of a Non-place

dc.creatorMortensen, Torill
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-06T13:43:46Z
dc.date.available2022-01-06T13:43:46Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.description.abstractIn role-playing MUDs, the arena is defined by the program and the builders, and mapping it is complicated and occasionally made even more so by those who create the arena. Still the metaphor of space is powerful and enduring, and players speak of the different little bits of text describing different settings in the MUD as rooms. They talk of movement and speed, of roads and paths, when what is really happening when the character moves from Haven or Azur is that the program lets you sort through its stored information in a certain manner. Only the administrators have power to access the information directly, all others need to follow some path, which creates an illusion of space and particularly of place. This illusion of place is not restricted to MUDs though: the metaphors of physical movement are powerful and enduring, to the point that Sherry Turkle’s interviewee suggests that online is its own place (Turkle 1995:231). But is the “place” I am accessing when I log on to the net comparable to physical places? I will discuss this on the background of Mark Auge’s concept of a non-place (1995).en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17631
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/18587
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRoberto Simanowski
dc.publisher.placeProvidence
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1617-6901
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectWorld Wide Weben
dc.subjectmulti-user dungeonen
dc.subjectspaceen
dc.subjectNon-Placesen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personMarc Augé
dc.titleThe Geography of a Non-placeen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-01-06T14:47:42
local.source.epage22
local.source.issue4
local.source.issueTitleNr. 30
local.source.spage1
local.source.volume5
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/124840884
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q706078

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