Wendy Chun, By Tomer, John and Chris

The main concept in the first chapter of Wendy Chun's "Control and Freedom", is "cyberspace"
Chun attempts to explain the term "Cyberspace", and brings up some difficulties that arise when approaching this concept.
One of the main difficulties is the notion of "space".
She shows that cyberspace is more of a tool, an apparatus, than an actual space.
Furthermore she states that there really is no basis to call this apparatus "space", and the only reason it is called so, is for legal reasons that apply to legislation over the internet.
Chan compares the lack of space when facing the internet, to the spatial aspect of television.
In this comparison Chun shows that a television program appears at a certain time, and on a certain channel, thus conforming to the idea of "space".
We thought that this idea does little to prove her point. Web pages can be seen as just as "spatial" as television channels. Furthermore time does affect the internet. So much so that there has been invented an "Internet Time", a clock specifically for the internet, to regulate it.
Chun sees the usage of the internet as a sort of "time travel", because a user can be in multiple places at once, browsing effortlessly between WebPages.
Again, we failed to see the novelty of this idea in comparison with the television. One can "channel surf", just as effortlessly on the television, and with picture in picture technology one can also view multiple channels at once.
Chun brings up Foucault's idea of heterotopia.
The heterotopia differs from the utopia in that a utopia is a fundamentally unreal space, while a heterotopia is a real space, which is simultaneously mythical and real.
We thought that this idea applies very well to the concept of "Cyberspace".
Cyberspace is by no means a utopia, but it is a heterotopia because it conforms to the two basic requirements:
It is undeniably "real", insofar that none can deny it exists.
It has many "mythical" aspects, not the least is the lack of physical "space", that Chun explains.
The idea that we thought about for our question is the following:
Can steps be taken to increase the "reality" and physicality of the "cyberspace"?
Can we forge physical space to the cyberspace? And if we do, will it still be considered "cyberspace", or a virtual reality?