While it may be that we have always identified in some sense with communities that were outside of the contexts of home, work, school or church, what has changed today is that for many of us, our primary context, our primary identity, is now found elsewhere, in a context unhinged from geography, from the who’s or what’s closest to us. Many of us are more concerned with who we are in a mediated context than who we are before those who live in the same neighborhood or who attend the same church. Our mediated communities, the ones that exist only in the form of communication—these are the ones we
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