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Masha du ToitYet, the real mystery is this: Why does it make any sense at all to create maps of a world that is so profoundly non-spatial? Why does the Web-- accessed through a computer that shows us a 2-D screen of colored bits --seem so resolutely spatial when it's
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12 Nov 08
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Why does the Web-- accessed through a computer that shows us a 2-D screen of colored bits --seem so resolutely spatial when it's not spatial at all?
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We're not surrounded by sensations but by stuff--the things of our world, each with some meaning to us." Our space is full of opportunities, obstacles and dangers--what the psychologist James Gibson called affordances (e.g., the chair affords us the possibility of sitting) and the philosopher Martin Heidegger called the ready-to-hand. [iii]
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The only difference is that in one case the documents are printed on paper and in the other they're sprayed across glass. Despite this, our experience of these two situations will be quite different. Consider the language we'll use. In the first case, we'll take a book from the shelf, find a link, get another book and put the first one back.
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Now consider the language we use to talk about the Web experience: we go to a site, we browse, we surf, we find a link so we go to it. When we're done, we leave the site.
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