ABSTRACT
In 2002, Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman accused the previous decade of Internet studies of ‘the fundamental sin of particularism, thinking of the Internet as a lived experience distinct from the rest of life’ (2002: 5). It was still too common, they argued, for users to be considered as if ‘immersed in online worlds unto themselves, separate from everyday life’ and from the processes and dynamics active in wider society.
