Cybersocialism. Group Consciousness in Transnational Communities

An important new type of community is emerging with the rapid advances in communication technologies: communities that cross cultural and political boundaries to engage in a commerce of information exchange. While there has been much research focused on the technological development of computersupported collaborative work, less is known about sociocultural attitudes and an understanding of how people perceive “belongingness” to a community in an environment where interaction is mediated by shared computer resources.