Digital Landscape Metaphors
How we use the physical world to describe the digital.
Digital Landscape Metaphors
Locality and specificity are good things and offer ways to preserve meaning in the increasingly contextless internet. You have to remain tied to your own digital geography or the scope of a specific viewpoint. An audience wants to feel like an in-group, like they’re in on the joke, even if that joke is just that the mayor of New York sucks.
Kyle Chayka, Digital locality, New Rules of Media, digital context
Douglas Rushkoff often refers to the “digital tide pool” vs the open ocean of information: a place of digital locality when bearings and life and community can take hold.
Digital tide pool
Digital decay & digital patina
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