This text essentially deals with the transmutation of the concept of "community" into "social networks". This change is due largely to the explosion of virtual communities in cyberspace, a fact that generated a number of studies, not only on this new way of weaving a society, but also on the structural dynamics of communication networks. At the core of this transformation, concepts such as social capital, trust and partial sympathy are called upon, so that we may think about the new forms of association that regulate human activity in our times.
computer communication networks; community networks; collective intelligence