Intergroup Dimensions of Internet

Intergroup boundaries of nationality, race, language, and ideology are called into question whenever new opportunities for intergroup contact arise. The Internet questions these boundaries like no other communication medium before it, because of its capacity to serve any (mediated) communication needs from interpersonal to mass broadcasting, because of its worldwide reach, and because of its access within and across a wide variety of groups and cultures (Hoffman & Novak, 1998; Katz, Rice, & Aspden, 2001).