The Phenomenology of Place as it exists through Facebook Image Archive
1. Place vs Space Place is the extent to which any dimension can be definite or indefinite in its perimeter in space.
2. Room 308 For the sake of defining a perimeter for this phenomenon : Room 308 is the domestic space as it materializes through data sharing and archival Facebook activity. It no longer exists on a plane adjacent to social media, but rather it is absorbed into the architectonics of user profile directory.
3. Establishing The Home The Housing Market is insofar as accessible as the user has access to an existing certificate of virtual personhood (email account) and the faculty to calculate a personalized access code (account password). Domestic affection allows that Facebook has partly furnished Room 308 and the user is comforted with that. The room has predetermined categories and even a catalog of suggested information to include in the decor. What are some of your favorite memories?
4. The Followers' Experience of Place The user output of Room 308 reinforces a history of space through a visual dialogue of curated uploads. This feed of information is validated through a guest log of views, likes, and comments from a community of followers. Followers are able to comprehend and respond to Room 308 as the user experiences it as such. The user develops a dependency on this flow of information and in turn is given a series of options to be notified in real time of their experience of Room 308.
5. Timeline The perimeter of Room 308 is logged on a timeline that can be reiterated at any point a history is revisited. Phenomenally, the greater extent to which information is archived and re-experienced through visiting the homepage : the richer the comprehension of place.
6. Foreclosure The final phenomenon of Room 308 is the exodus that is experienced when a sense of place shifts from one social media plane to another. Domestic resources have the potential to be found in greater abundance elsewhere and Room 308 is abandoned and its perimeter disintegrated into a series of nostalgic screenshots.