Digital technologies affect experiences of place in ways that are disorienting because they overwhelm us with information and images, bring into question what is real and what is fake, confuse real and virtual reality, and exacerbate extreme views about who belongs where. The consequences of this ‘digital disorientation’ might seem to be experienced as unremarkable and benign. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that these consequences include a digitally poisoned sense of place based on exclusionary attitudes paradoxically fostered in the echo chambers of non-place communities. Resisting this and its political manifestations will require finding ways to promote an open and inclusive digital sense of place that is necessarily grounded in the actual places of everyday life; that understands that digitally these actual places are both permeated by and reach out into distant times and places; and that embraces rather than denies difference.

数字技术以迷失方向的方式影响地方体验，因为它们用信息和图像淹没我们，使我们怀疑什么是真实的和什么是假的，混淆了真实和虚拟现实，并加剧了关于谁属于哪里的极端观点。这种“数字迷失方向”的后果似乎是平淡无奇的。然而，越来越清楚的是，这些后果包括基于在非地方社区的回声室中自相矛盾地培养的排斥态度而造成的数字中毒的地方感。抵制这一点及其政治表现将需要找到方法来促进开放和包容的数字场所感，这种场所感必须植根于日常生活的实际场所；理解这些实际地点以数字方式渗透并延伸到遥远的时间和地点；这包含而不是否认差异。