Four ways in which the internet is spacial (there are probably more):
1. There is a materiality to the Internet that we don't normally have full access to. (servers, etc)
2. The internet intersects with our physical spaces in various ways through our various devices.
3. The internet intersects with our psychological sense of space (and our engagement with our embodied sense of space) in various ways (like feeling like we are "in" the world of a video game or being distracted from the world around us when we are "in" our phones).
4. The internet creates networks of social relations between bodies across physical space that we call social spaces (individuals' facebook feeds as spaces in this sense, or boardgamegeek, or black twitter, or etc).
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