Author: van den Bos, Matthijs

Source: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 12, Number 3, September 2006 , pp. 643-661(19)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract:

Transnational Dutch-Iranian hyperlink networks allow the exploration of relationships between virtual and physical space. According to many of its analysts, the Internet implies a virtual transcendence of place, but ethnographic approaches have convincingly redirected attention to issues of embeddedness. Here, this concept principally applies to national contexts of hyperlink production, content, and directionality. This article examines the interrelationships of on-line and off-line contexts (patterns of Dutch-Iranian communal organization) as a prelude to explorations of transnational hyperlinking. My findings indicate that national hyperlinks remain relatively important and that transnational links, far from being `deterritorialized', follow national patterns for their sectoral distribution. That is, physical space, of nation-state boundaries in particular, weighs heavily on virtual interaction.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00357.x

Publication date: 2006-09-01

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