Lebanese Global Villages: Practices of reproduction and constitution of global communities

植根于黎巴嫩村庄的全球侨民社区在过去一个世纪中得到了发展，并遍布世界各地。与此同时，在世界不同地区的社区个人之间出现了一种永久的世界范围内的流动和交流的密集整合。新媒体和数字平台使社区充满活力，因为音频和视频通信现在几乎随时可用。这种社区在互联网上的虚拟复制为联合活动和联合行动提供了更多的机会。据推测，新的信息和通信技术（ict）加强了超越国界的社区的社会巩固。社区内现有的社会秩序模式更加重要。从侨民社区的观点来看，目前的政治和社会重新定位主要涉及权力的重新分配，他们希望参与其中。该项目的目的是发展一个新的理论框架，重新考虑传统的类别，如种族，社区和民族国家。该项目的成员开发了一种新的实证方法，将信息通信技术与社会变革之间的相互作用纳入其中。最后，项目的结果显示了全球社区成员在其所生活的社会中参与社会和政治的可能性。为了实现这些目标，科学家们把黎巴嫩的Aitou村、Hadchit村和Ehden村作为他们实地工作的起点。从这些村庄开始，他们将实证研究扩展到德国、澳大利亚和美国。科学家们将散居者定义为支离破碎的社会秩序。为了将这一概念置于现代语境中，他们通过TÖNNIES（1887）完善了Gemeinschaft的概念，并将其与SCHATZKI（2002）的社会实践理论联系起来。发达的理论强调社会生活的异质性和情感时刻。地球村的成员通过集体社会实践，如传统舞蹈和仪式，以及电话等日常实践，建立并再现这些情感关系。本项目提出地球村这一新的理论框架，作为研究现代全球化世界中社区建设过程的一个有价值的概念。

Global diaspora communities with roots in villages in Lebanon have developed over the course of the past century and spread all over the world. At the same time, there is a permanent worldwide mobility occurring and intensive integration of communication developing among the individuals of the communities in different parts of the world. New media and digital platforms make the communities dynamic, since audio and video communication is now available virtually at any time. This virtual duplication of the community in the internet opens up additional opportunities for conjoining activities and joint actions. It is presumed that the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) strengthen the social consolidation of communities that transcend national boundaries. The existing patterns of social order within the communities gain additional importance. From the viewpoint of the diaspora community, the present political and social reorientation primarily involves a redistribution of power, in which they want to participate. A purpose of the project is to develop a new theoretical framework reconsidering conventional categories such as ethnicity, community and the nation state. The members of the project develop a new empirical approach to include the interplay between ICTs and social change. Finally the results of the projects exhibit possibilities of social and political participation of members of global communities in the societies in which they are living. To encounter these aims the scientists use the villages Aitou, Hadchit and Ehden in Lebanon as start points for their fieldwork. From these villages they expand their empirical studies to Germany, Australia and the USA. The scientists define Diasporas as fragmented social orders. To put this concept in a modern context, they refine the concept of Gemeinschaft by TÖNNIES (1887) and connect it with the theory of social practices of SCHATZKI (2002). The developed theory emphasizes the heterogeneity, and emotional moment of social life. The members of the global villages establish and reproduce these affective relations by collective social practices, such as traditional dances and ceremonies, and day-to-day practices as phone calls. The project suggests the new theoretical framework of the global village as a valuable concept to do research on the process of community-building in the modern globalized world.