Inhabiting cyberspace and emerging cyberplaces

Tobias Boos

pp. 121-127

in: Tobias Boos, Inhabiting cyberspace and emerging cyberplaces, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Abstract

This concluding chapter summarises the benefits of using the notion of inhabiting cyberspace when analysing the websites of communities and neighbourhoods. Broadly speaking, the conclusions examine the results of the case study in the light of those studies reviewed in Chap.  2. It highlights that inhabiting cyberplaces based on the World Wide Web has become an important part of inhabiting the contemporary world. Outside pressures and the omnipresent threat of surveillance make it essential for neighbourhoods and communities, particularly those of interest for tourists and those involved in organising world-famous events, to unlock cyberspace. Online representations are, therefore, performative practices of forming and controlling cultural identities. Today, unlocking cyberspace and inhabiting cyberplaces seem to have become an integral part of coming-to-the-globalised-world.