TY - JOUR T1 - Virtual togetherness: an everyday-life perspective JF - Media, Culture & Society Y1 - 2003 A1 - Maria Bakardjieva KW - Contemporary Religious Community KW - New Media and Society KW - new media engagement KW - New Technology and Society KW - online communication KW - Online community KW - religion KW - Religion and the Internet KW - religious engagement KW - Sociology of religion KW - users’ participation AB - 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’ participation in what have been called ‘virtual communities’ (Rheingold, 1993) over the Internet constitutes a cultural trend of ‘immobile socialization’, or in other words, socialization of private experience through the invention of new forms of intersubjectivity and social organization online. VL - 25 UR - http://learningspaces.org/irm/Bakardjieva_Togetherness.pdf ER -