In other words, digital actors need an electronic space to operate in. These various electronic spaces range from the literary to the architectural, which is to say from spaces created entirely with words to spaces which are intentionally modeled on architectural ideals.
Literary spaces are spaces created entirely with words.
Public discussions on the net form a kind of space because conversations involving a group of people could only otherwise take place in a physical room. Space, n. , 3. By literary space I do not mean the sense of space created by Faulkner or Proust, but rather the use of text to create a kind of written conversation which could formerly exist only between groups of people gathered in one place. This is also a good description of the net, and especially of the sense into which the net is divided into different areas. The easiest way to indicate that mailing lists, say, provide a different sense of electronic connectivity than real time chat is to treat them as different spaces operating with different rules.