Przestrzeń społeczna w dobie Internetu: globalna sieć komunikacyjna, przestrzeń wirtualna czy część życia codziennego?
Social Space in the Age of Internet: Global Communicational Network, Virtual Space or a Part of Everyday Life?

Summary/Abstract: Social space is a platform for interpersonal contacts. Internet offers a new possibility of creating social space because each user might contact with any other despite geographical distance between them. Then, social space in the Internet age may be an aterritorial network composed of people’s communication and exchange of digital values. Manuel Castells named it ‘space of flows’. Moreover, Internet connections seem to create an alternative kind of space, called cyberspace or virtual space. Some contemporary social researchers suggest, however, to ‘move the Internet out of cyberspace’ because it is not an alternative space but merely an instrument used by people in their everyday practices. The people’s everyday life is always lived in a specific material place. Then the Internet makes possible global communication but at once is used in local activities. Considering the Internet as a part of everyday life provides a synthesis global and local aspects of the Internet.

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