@article {1182, title = {Virtual togetherness: an everyday-life perspective}, journal = {Media, Culture \& Society}, volume = {25}, year = {2003}, chapter = {291}, abstract = {The objective of this article is to explore some dimensions of the concept of virtual community, which relates to empowering possibilities in the appropriation of the Internet by domestic users. I contend that users{\textquoteright} participation in what have been called {\textquoteleft}virtual communities{\textquoteright} (Rheingold, 1993) over the Internet constitutes a cultural trend of {\textquoteleft}immobile socialization{\textquoteright}, or in other words, socialization of private experience through the invention of new forms of intersubjectivity and social organization online.}, keywords = {Contemporary Religious Community, New Media and Society, new media engagement, New Technology and Society, online communication, Online community, religion, Religion and the Internet, religious engagement, Sociology of religion, users{\textquoteright} participation}, url = {http://learningspaces.org/irm/Bakardjieva_Togetherness.pdf}, author = {Maria Bakardjieva} }