Mobile connectivity transformed the internet into a continuous overlay of everyday life.
Evidence
Move forward another ten years, and, through portable devices with connectivity (smartphones and then tablets), the internet stopped being something statically available from particular points in space and became a dimension that overlays social space continuously. As Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge put it, “Software … alters the conditions through which society, space and time, and thus spatiality, are produced.” As a result, the internet, understood as an infrastructure of connection, has reconstituted social space in a fundamental way. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 113
Categorization
- XREF: Overlaps with the attention/surveillance schools’ account of ubiquitous media. — connects to: Modern communications technology has fundamentally reshaped human consciousness and social relations; Networked video now saturates every interstitial moment of daily life — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 202; Digital technologies reach three billion people and now mediate nearly all social life — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 22 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Networked video now saturates every interstitial moment of daily life
#exemplifies(0.85) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 202 - Modern communications technology has fundamentally reshaped human consciousness and social relations
#expands(0.80) - Digital technologies reach three billion people and now mediate nearly all social life
#expands(0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 22 - The smartphone created a new social norm of perpetual device attention.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1039 - The iPhone gave billions constant pocket access to the internet
#qualifies(0.70) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 199