Enter the Matrix of Cybersocial Reality

• Main Author: Nilsson, Robert
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete 2009
• Subjects: Internet; Cyberspace; Unaccompanied Refugee Youth; Social Networks; Relations; Online Community; Cybersocial Reality; Globalisation; Diaspora; Transnationalism.
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-8324

This paper’s chief focus lays in essence, in the examination of what the eventual relevance of the internet has for refugee youth in Sweden, regarding the realisation of a sense of community and participation therein. Rather than acquiring grounds with which to make generalisations feasible, it is an approach towards attaining a better comprehension in understanding the significance of a youth’s views and perceptions, through which ultimately also their internalisation, of the internet as a medium towards eventual capitalisation of the cybersocial potential. However, by ‘sense of community’, this primarily refers to interactional and relational aspects, rather than on premises of eventual membership within forums that may in turn prove to be ’dormant’.