ABSTRACT
This chapter offers four perspectives like attributes of real and virtual social spaces; experiencing real and virtual social spaces. The commercial nature of the Internet has expressed capitalist desires for new ways of profit generation. The Internet has become the major medium for personally and instantly available information and communications based on computers and fixed telecommunications systems. The social meanings of the construction process of virtual action space and its following use will be highlighted through structuration theory, which accentuates the vicious cycle between human agency and social structures. Hagerstrand developed time-geography as a tool for tracing the time-space paths of individuals and their activities through time-space prisms, which depict daily travels for distinct activities and the lengths of stay in specific locations for each activity. This chapter explores the nature of real and virtual spaces, attempting to some basic meanings, significances and workings of these two spaces, notably from the perspectives of their constitution as social action spaces.
