Digitalisation has altered our world: A geographical perspective

Abstract

In this short commentary, I respond to the provocation that digitalisation has altered our world. I do so from primarily a geographical perspective – one of the many disciplines that Dialogues on Digital Society represents as an interdisciplinary journal. Geographical thought and practice are frequently focused on the way we make and experience worlds, both things which digital technologies have promised to alter. But have digital technologies fundamentally altered our understanding of and engagement with space? Or have they simply digitally reproduced existing spatial relationships? In my reflections below, I find that the answer is not as simple as it might first look.