Mediated Identities in the Futures of Place—Towards a Conceptual Frame?

Our theoretical approach considers cognitive and identity issues relevant to the locational, relational and technology-mediated concept images developed from thematic analyses of contributions in this collection. It probes the extent to which commonalities in these and wider implications for emerging practices and spatial cultures—suggest a means by which alternative outlines of ‘place’ notions could be explored—in terms of contemporary locative, social and identity-generating experiences and constructs? Could an indicative, media-based, ‘Concept Frame’ provide a basis for conceptualising emerging forms of mediated identity in place futures?—If so, what are key features of such a framework, and how might this, and other frames be interrogated, reconfigured and shared across disciplinary boundaries?