Community is a more or less immediate network of human relationships. This network is often thought of as a place where people share a common identity through their physical proximity, such as a city, town or neighborhood. Many uses of community have this idea of a group of people living in the same locality, even if the implications of community consciousness go beyond mere geographical bonding. Community can also mean a social group having common interests and affinities—ethnic or racial, sexual preference, linguistic, religious, etc. The members of these communities may not live near each other or even all know each other.

In Beyond Borders: See Daniel Kemmis "The Last Best Place: How Hardship and Limits Build Community"; bell hooks, "Love as the Practice of Freedom"; and Images 27a, 27b, 27c, 27d "Turning from the Millenium: Images from a Digital Exhibition about Two Communities in Los Angeles."

In Beyond Borders Online: See Web Research Activities, "The Web and a Sense of Place and Community."

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