ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how contemporary communities exist, expand, and are sustained through localized and virtual forms of sharing responsibility, exchanging life experiences, creating meaning, and giving ontological security to people's lives. With an outset in understanding community and the influence mobility has on its maintenance or erosion due to increased individualism a suggestion is provided to where communities on the move can be found. Through examples from previous research, I show how modern, live communities still rely upon the need for exchanging everyday experiences and sharing responsibilities. The different forms of presence, commitment, and intentionality are simultaneously localized and continued at a distance, through physical and virtual mobilities. Understanding communities within a mobile world needs to take seriously that they are in flow, they move. A specific community may not last forever, but only for the short specific phase of a certain point in life—but it has meaning and it matters:
