Connecting Communities: On and Offline

Open Access

1 November 2004

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in Contexts

Vol. 3 (4) , 22-28
https://doi.org/10.1525/ctx.2004.3.4.22

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.

Keywords

CONNECTING COMMUNITIES
INTERNET
SOCIAL NETWORKS
REAL WORLD
ISOLATING USERS
SEPARATE WORLD
EXTENDS COMMUNITIES
GROUNDED GROUPS
PEOPLE USE
THAN ISOLATING

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The Virtual Community
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