Connecting Communities: On and Offline

In: Contexts / American Sociological Association: understanding people in their social worlds, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 22-28

Abstract

The Internet is no longer a separate world for the techno-savvy. Tens of millions of people around the world now go online daily. Rather than isolating users in a virtual world, the Internet extends communities in the real world. People use it to connect in individualized and flexible social networks rather than in fixed and grounded groups.