The way we engage in media -- and the widespread, rapid exchange of information via social media and other tools -- has changed things drastically. The way in which we're having discussions about -- on blogs, on Twitter, on our Facebook pages, and in an overwhelmingly participatory, everyone-has-a-voice fashion -- has changed the political and social landscape forever. Networked mobility in general and mobile phone use in particular, lead to altered or transformed understandings of place and place-making.

Rowan Wilken in FCJ-036 From Stabilitas Loci to Mobilitas Loci: Networked Mobility and the Transformation of Place in Fibre Journal says that mobile technologies point to the need to a significant shift in our traditional understanding of place as stable and fixed (stabilitas loci):

it would seem a shift is being initiated from the notion of stabilitas loci or “stable place” to what I have been terming mobilitas loci: the difference between place experienced as stable (if not fixed), to multiple places experienced in and through mobility. ....To conceive of place in this way is to come almost full circle in our understanding of how place is experienced: from the “mobile gaze” of the nineteenth-century, via what Anne Friedberg terms the “virtual mobile gaze” of late-twentieth century postmodernism (1993), to what might be understood as a “re-mobilised (virtual) gaze” with the advent of mobile (particularly image-enabled) telephonic technologies.