Mediatized Communities and Identity-Shaping Narratives in the Information Age

Abstract This article highlights how the interweaving of personal, community, social, and mass communication narratives conveyed in the framework of new communications technology contributes to the development of a new concept of community and tradition, and how this concept makes our community and social roles related to our communication processes more complex. This study argues that in the context of the narratives transmitted and received in the medium of new technologies, for the individual who is entwined through his multiplying communication relationships, a community no longer appears as a set of direct interpersonal relationships that take place in a given place, but as trust relationships that are born through the use of different communication technologies and are in constant interaction with each other.