The space and place of DeviantArt

The space of DeviantArt is that of a calm and intellectual area for communications and sharing, this makes the place within our ideals. Space meaning a continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied. Place meaning a particular position, point, or area in space; a location. “words alone, used in an appropriate situation, can have the power to render objects, formerly invisible because unattended, visible, and impart to them a certain character.”

The words we use to describe virtual space and activities on the Internet. cyber space, the information superhighway, the world wide web, the net, cyber-crime, clickjacking, cyber-security, troll, online, offline, upload, phishing, spam, cyber-bullying, info Sumer, sexting, tagging, avatar, firewall, portal, platform, browser. These words both reflect and shape our ways of imagining virtual space on the Internet by the image our minds create when hearing them. Drawing on Tuan, language and naming make place in deviantart. In addition, in light of DeviantArt, what language it uses and how this defines a sense of space or place, self or community identity. The language used on the site are nice full formed sentence with thought out idea, this defines the sense of space as an intelligent calming area where one can communicate with each other about the art concepts they find interested in.

The Pictures and iconography are also forms of narrative, and are increasingly becoming important in our visually-oriented print- and popular culture. Refer to Tuan, in your discussion of what sorts of pictures, signs, or iconography shapes a sense of place and space in you chosen network. The images that are portray on DeviantArt are form all different genre from anime to real life, this is all without judgment and makes the space in DeviantArt an area where one won’t have to worry about

A song line, also called dreaming track, is one of the paths across the land (or sometimes the sky) which mark the route followed by localised "creator-beings" during the Dreaming. There are similarities between these and the network narrative of DeviantArt being that there are ways to move about the site like with any and it doesn’t matter who you talk to on the site it will be the same conversation structure, they are un-written guidelines. While there are these similarities there are also many differences while the song lines and the network narrative are un-written guides, the network narrative is a more simple and unspoken guide, where the song lines are complexes spoken/ sung guide. While any member or the network will know the narrative only members of the communities will know the true parts to the song lines.

How places are made is at the core of human geography. Overwhelmingly the discipline has emphasized the economic and material forces at work. Neglected is the explicit recognition of the crucial role of language, even though without speech humans cannot even begin to formulate ideas, discuss them, and translate them into action that culminates in a built place. Moreover, words alone, used in an appropriate situation, can have the power to render objects, formerly invisible because unattended, visible, and impart to them a certain character: thus a mere rise on a flat surface becomes something far more-a place that promises to open up to other places-when it is named "Mount Prospect." The different ways by which language contributes toward the making of place may be shown by exploring a wide range of situations and cultural contexts. Included in this paper are the contexts of hunter-gatherers, explorers and pioneers, intimate friendship, literary London, Europe in relation to Asia, and Chinese gardening and landscape art. There is a moral dimension to speech as there is to physical action. Thus warm conversation between friends can make the place itself seem warm; by contrast, malicious speech has the power to destroy a place's reputation and thereby its visibility. In the narrative-descriptive approach, the question of how and why language is effective is implied or informally woven into the presentation, but not explicitly formulated or developed. Ways of making place in different situations-from the naming of objects by pioneers, to informal conversation in any home, to the impact of written texts-are highlighted and constitute the paper's principal purpose, rather than causal explanations, which must vary with each type of linguistic behavior and each situation.” words alone, used in an appropriate situation, can have the power to render objects, formerly invisible because unattended, visible, and impart to them a certain character” we as members have made this site our space, our place, an area that much like song lines has its own guides we all follow for the good of all the members.

by Stephanie hall

Reference list   Abstract

Tuan, Y-F. (1977). ‘Introduction’. In Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. (p.p.3-7). London: Edward Arnold.