The Role of Interspace in Sustaining Identity

摘要

Michael Hulme and Anna Truch's article on 'Interspace', is one in which a new field of social spaces in between the established ones of home, work and social lives is developed. Hulme and Truch argue that the mobility of the device allows what has previously been a transitory space to become a social field in its own right. Following on from spontaneous comments from the subjects in their study, they define this space as increasingly important. In this article, the way in which the mobile phone stretches boundaries of social time and space is explored. This stretching opens up a whole new territory, which becomes a place of negotiation that exists in the travels the individual subject makes between the more formalised spaces. Hulme and Truch define this space as one of transition between established, more formalised fields; one of overlapping fields—in interspace the individual is juggling roles from a variety of social fields.