Technology has boomed in the last 30 years and has thus crucially begun to change the ways in which individuals and people function and socialize. We experienced the biggest changes with the development of modern information and communication technology, especially when everyday life began to expand into cyberspace. In my master's thesis, I outline the development of information and communication technologies that have made a key contribution to change, especially in ways of community engagement and imagining communities, and also the role of these technologies in the concept of social capital. I analyze all this in a concrete case study of The Artidote virtual community, with particular interest in community ties such as trust, reciprocity, a sense of community.
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