Mediopolis; a constant in the life of a citizen of nowhere.



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My postal address says I’m a resident of Brisbane. Emotionally, I’m a universal nomad. If my life were a Sofia Coppola movie, it would be an adventure love story about a flaxen haired, dreamy-eyed country kid who set off at 17 to find her place in this too-big world; a journey driven by an obsessive curiosity, a short attention span and sheer dumb luck, punctuated by one big romantic distraction, the odd threat of deportation and a penchant for sudden changes to the plan.

The concept of “home” to me is purely contextual, and could be Cairns, or New York, or Sydney, or Brisbane depending on who’s asking, or the nostalgia I’m feeling about the various stages of my life at the time.

But there is one place where I have put down roots.  I am a permanent citizen of “Mediopolis”.

"Mediopolis" is a cyber world which Silverstone (2007), de Jong and Schuilenburg (2006), and Inkinen (1998) describe as “…a comprehensively mediated public space where media underpin and overarch the experiences and expressions of everyday life” (cited in Dueze, 2011).

The nature my life dictates that much of it is lived in, rather than with media (Deuze, 2011).  Dueze argues that perhaps - given the ubiquous and pervasive nature of media today - this notion should be the basis of studies into the realities of our existence, and that as a society we have grown blind to the very thing that defines modern life as we know it.

References

Deuze, M. (2011). Media Life. In Media, Culture & Society, Volume 33, issue 1, pp. 137-148