Reintroducing context does not necessarily align a network with physical place.

Evidence

But while Mastodon instances begin to reintroduce context, that context is not necessarily aligned with physical space, nor is it intended to be. When I asked my friend Taeyoon Choi, cofounder of the School of Poetic Computation in New York, about a network that would allow you to “listen to a place,” he suggested local mesh networks like Oakland’s PeoplesOpen.net. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 582

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows the book’s turn toward place and physical grounding, which the reader tracks as one axis of the attention-redirection argument. — connects to: Spatial practices cannot be read apart from social context — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1402; Microsociology’s localism fails once interaction is disembedded from physical place. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 21; In-person gatherings, not online tools, anchor geographically embedded tech scenes. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 154 (+2 more)