Rather than starting out as a gallery artist, then moving on from that context to exploit the mechanisms and forms of mass media in creating and disseminating his art, Lonergan began his work online and only later attempted to adapt his practice in order to participate in
meatspace exhibitions.
We are in the beginning stages of the transfer of most of society's functions--working, socializing, shopping, acting politically--from what Internet denizens jokingly call "
meatspace" into the virtual domain.
In "
meatspace," I don't share everything with my colleagues that I share with my friends from high school, much less with my wife; why should my online interactions be any different?
As judges struggled to adapt laws and jurisprudence to new challenges posed by the internet, netizens insisted that such adaptation was impossible: (85) they argued that the laws of
meatspace (that is, the real world) should not apply in "institutionally distinct" cyberspace.
This interplay between what old timers used to call cyberspace and
meatspace is one of the signatures of our time.
meatspace: where you meet Internet pals in person, also known as real life
Adam also writes articles for the website Secondlife.reuters.com, which also features a mix of virtual and real-life (known to many metaverse dwellers as "
meatspace") news.
Clearly, the "space" of cyberspace is of a very different sort than that of "
meatspace."