This paper investigates young people living in a regional Australian town and explores the ways that they negotiate place-making using mobile media. Australia has been characterised as a country of vast distances, and young people living in rural and regional areas are at the centre of narratives that position digital technologies as enablers or disruptors. This paper puts such deterministic discourses aside to focus on the ways place is made by young people living outside the city according to their own perspectives and experiences. Focus groups with 62 participants aged 16–28 years pointed to many of those in-the-background place-making practices and signalled the near seamless way that making places was simultaneously done online as well as in material, face-to-face contexts. The forms of place made by the young people of this study comprised a range of elasticised neighbourhoods and public spaces that were materially anchored, though extended digitally through territorially embedded socialities and shared locational information. Regional geographies retained their meaning, though traditional constraints could be renegotiated to reflect youthful relationships with local place.

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利用移动媒体营造场所：澳大利亚偏远地区年轻人的场所营造模糊

本文调查了居住在澳大利亚偏远小镇的年轻人，并探讨了他们使用移动媒体协商场所营造的方式。澳大利亚被描述为一个遥远的国家，生活在农村和偏远地区的年轻人处于将数字技术定位为推动者或破坏者的叙事中心。本文将这种确定性的话语搁置一旁，专注于生活在城市之外的年轻人根据他们自己的观点和经历创造场所的方式。由 62 名年龄在 16-28 岁之间的参与者组成的焦点小组指出了许多在后台的场所营造实践，并表明场所制作几乎是无缝的方式，即在线以及在物质、面对面的环境中同时进行场所制作。这项研究的年轻人创造的地方形式包括一系列弹性社区和公共空间，这些社区和公共空间在物质上是固定的，尽管通过地域嵌入的社会和共享的位置信息以数字方式扩展。区域地理保留了它们的含义，尽管可以重新协商传统限制以反映与当地地方的年轻关系。