Your Personal Map of the Internet | Make Bank

Many of us spend hours per day on the internet. Do we have a map or a model in our head? a physical metaphor? Do we know where we are in it?

One response to Kevin Kelly’s Internet Mapping Project

Kevin Kelly’s Internet Mapping Project asks people to draw and share they way the see the internet as a physical space:

The internet is vast. Bigger than a city, bigger than a country, maybe as big as the universe. It’s expanding by the second. No one has seen its borders.

And the internet is intangible, like spirits and angels. The web is an immense ghost land of disembodied places. Who knows if you are even there, there.

Yet everyday we navigate through this ethereal realm for hours on end and return alive. We must have some map in our head.

This is an activity you should do as a drawing of the way you see the internet (personally). What does it look like in your head?

Download the map template (PDF) and print it out (or use a blank sheet of paper). With a pen or pencil (or crayon) draw your map. Include where you are in it, but also, consider including some representation of how other people are part of your map.

Related

See some examples from the 2019 NetNarr class http://somni.arganee.world/category/mapping/

Example for "Your Personal Map of the Internet":
http://somni.arganee.world/2019/63/

Internet Mapping Project

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Weaved Road to Glory
by Ryan Marlowe (@BlueKnights))
Weaved Road to Glory
by Ryan Marlowe (@BlueKnights))
Kevin on the Internet
by Kevin Kourakos (@krock528))

This is a short illustration of how I interact with the internet.
Medea’s Perspective of the Internet
by Medea (@medeathewriter))

Medea’s Third Eye View of the Internet
What the internet looks and feels like in my brain…
by NivesWrites (@NivesWrites))

This what my brain looks like and how small I feel when I’m on the internet! Everything looks jumbled and scrambled and doesn’t make sense! In the midst of the chaos I feel super small. 😉
One Rabbit Hole After Another
by Alan Levine (@cogdog))

I see the internet as a cabinet of curiosities, often diversions, that lead me down deep, and far away, yet often finding things wonderfully unexpected. It’s not one space but an infinite number of infinite ones. Always carry a flashlight. And leave a trail so you can find your way home.

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Internet Mapping Project (Kevin Kelly)
shared by Alan Levine (@cogdog)

The original project site.
Internet Mapping Project Examples (Kevin Kelly Flickr Set)
shared by Alan Levine (@cogdog)

Over 270 examples submitted in response to the original project
Mapping Project Template (PDF) (from original by Kevin Kelly)
shared by Alan Levine (@cogdog)

A simple template you can use to draw your map

This work by Alan Levine is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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