Space means “denoting time or duration” and “area or extension” (_Oxford English Dictionary_). Media are often credited with the annihilation of space in both of these senses through their collapse of time/duration and compression of distance ([Harvey 1989](/media-studies/works_cited/harvey-david/)). Yet, media also constitute and produce space, symbolically and materially. Media are fundamentally disorienting and orienting—dislodging us, helping us navigate, and producing space simultaneously. The possibility to transcend time/space was an early promise of mass media. Newspapers emerged amid the desire to bridge distances to bring news from colonies to ensure the success of the imperial mission ([Warner 1990](/media-studies/works_cited/warner-michael/)). Television too promised a “window to the world,” providing increasingly suburbanized audiences what [Raymond Williams (1974)](/media-studies/works_cited/williams-raymond/) called “mobile privatization,” or the ability to both travel and stay put. Today, we are enjoined to view the Internet, mobile phones, and social media as creating a global world of interconnectedness, where our place-based affiliations matter little compared to our capacity to bridge distances and differences through interconnectivity. This sensibility of media as space collapsing echoes Walter Benjamin’s influential _The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction_ ([1936/2008](/media-studies/works_cited/benjamin-walter-se/)). Benjamin contends that mass reproduction divorces art from its situatedness in a particular space and time,...