%0 Journal Article %J Media, Culture & Society %D 2003 %T Virtual togetherness: an everyday-life perspective %A Maria Bakardjieva %K Contemporary Religious Community %K New Media and Society %K new media engagement %K New Technology and Society %K online communication %K Online community %K religion %K Religion and the Internet %K religious engagement %K Sociology of religion %K users’ participation %X 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. %B Media, Culture & Society %V 25 %G eng %U http://learningspaces.org/irm/Bakardjieva_Togetherness.pdf %& 291