A feature of displacement is our insertion into globalised cultural and information settings, which means that familiarity and place are much less consistently connected than hitherto. This is less a phenomenon of estrangement from the local than one of integration within globalised "communities" of shared experience. The boundaries of concealment and disclosure become altered, since many erstwhile quite distinct activities are juxtaposed in unitary public domains.

XREF: Connects to scholarship on globalisation and identity (Appadurai, Castells) and to discourse on digital publics reshaping privacy boundaries.

Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Moderni…, loc. 341