It is hard to get around the idea that Mobile Media like the cell phone helps to intertwine the virtual space with the physical space. but i think it is the idea of bringing someone distant from you, proxiaml. but mobile media creates a space that cannot be seen through physical space but maybe a representation of physical space on a computer screen called the virtual space. When playing internet games such as World of Warcraft, there is a fantasy world created for users to venture and like a street directory, places located in World of Warcraft only exist specifically in the game. Gibson refers this a cyberspace that is a hybrid cybernetic space, a concensual hallucination of unthinkable complexity.’ all the users more together in the Virtual space in real time to feel the night timing of ‘ proximal’ movement together like how it is in ‘meatspace’ or physical space.
Castell raises the idea as the ‘space of flows’, a flow of communication that define a network. By playing ‘WOW’ on the internet, i realised that i am reacting with other people around the world. it is sad to say that people feel like WOW is real to them like how the physical space is real. People take this game seriously and if i defeat a highly ranked player, they throw an immediate tantrum, but it is representated in words shown on my screen typed by the other player saying offensive language and threats to me saying that he could hurt me in the physical space. A lot can be interpreted in the ‘Space of Flows’ and the idea of the virtual space imbuing the physical simply from a set of codes, colours and pixels that create image to represent ‘space’. It’s frightening to say that the virtual space can really affect our physical self in the real world.
