From Virtual Communities to Network Sociality – Revisiting Different Concepts of Social Relations in the Network Society
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As the online and the offline world become increasingly intertwined the different concepts of social interaction have to be revisited in order to understand differences and similarities. This paper examines different concepts from the utopian view of the virtual community to the commodification of social relations in Wittel’s notion of network sociality. The purpose is to reveal the underlying trends that these concepts display in order to grasp the change in our social interaction.
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