Afterword: Digital spaces, sociology and surveillance

Abstract

The idea of cyberspace is drifting into disuse. I have no brief to revive its fortunes. But it is worth observing that it does have some useful sociological dimensions when considering the notion of space in digitally mediated communications. In particular, it expresses some delicious ambiguities that serve as reminders of important multiple meanings expressed in some of the most useful concepts. It also foregrounds some ways in which the techno-social is implicated in emerging social relations across the warp and woof of social life and, additionally, is clearly not an innocent concept.