TY - JOUR AU - Rymarczuk, Robin AU - Derksen, Maarten PY - 2014/05/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Different spaces: Exploring Facebook as heterotopia JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 19 IS - 6 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v19i6.5006 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5006 SP - AB - <p style="margin-top: 0.35cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: transparent;">In this paper we explore the space of Facebook, and use Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia to describe it. We show that the heterotopic nature of Facebook explains not only much of its attraction, but even more the discomfort that many people, users as well as non–users, experience in it. Analysing Facebook as a heterotopia brings its relation to other spaces into focus: it is a world in the world, that juxtaposes and merges other spaces into <em>‘une espace autre’</em>.</span></span></span></span></p> ER -