The Power of Place in Understanding—and Reframing—Digital Capitalism

The Internet, digital technologies, and the informational ecosystems they create are too often understood in abstract, immaterial, and (particularly) aspatial terms. While this mythology is not as prevalent as it once was, terms like “the cloud,” “cyberspace,” and even “ethernet” underscore a sense that our digital communications, interactions, and exchanges take place “somewhere else” —somewhere that exists in a separate plane, away from the mundane geography of our everyday surroundings.

However...