place polygamy

is marriage to several places at once, belonging in different worlds: This is the gateway to globality in one's own life... it leads to the globalization of the biography'.

place polygamy' that Ulrich Beck coined in his book What is Globalization' He doesn't delve directly into mediated, online communities but I thought that his phrase is applicable to the discussion at hand. 'Place polygamy' refers to the fact that most people will consider more than one place 'home' because of the ease in traveling and connections to different places in the world. Beck writes 'Transnational place polygamy, marriage to several places at once, belonging in different worlds: this is the gateway to globality in one's own life... it leads to the globalization of the biography' (p. 73). (net)

place polygamy, n.Definitions

place polygamy