The more I think about this quote the more I am starting to agree with it: "Community is no longer understood in geographical terms" (Srinivasan 2006 p. 498).
In today's world the scope for the word community is much wider than it once was. The term is still representative of groups of people coming together to discuss common interests, it still represents a sense of belonging, a place where people can voice opinions, learn new things, support each other, help each other and contribute to the collective intelligence of the group. However, it is no longer a given that all this happens in a geographical location. Geography is no longer crucial to the formation of a community - it can be for some, but not for all, so it makes sense that it is not something we now blindly associate with the word.
In today's world the scope for the word community is much wider than it once was. The term is still representative of groups of people coming together to discuss common interests, it still represents a sense of belonging, a place where people can voice opinions, learn new things, support each other, help each other and contribute to the collective intelligence of the group. However, it is no longer a given that all this happens in a geographical location. Geography is no longer crucial to the formation of a community - it can be for some, but not for all, so it makes sense that it is not something we now blindly associate with the word.
Srinivasan, R. 2006. Indigenous, ethnic and cultural articulations of new media. International Journal of Cultural Studies 9: 497. http://ics.sagepub.com/content/9/4/497 (accessed 15/10/11).
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