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This chapter discusses the possibilities and perils of the ways in which digital and social media allow people to bond together over shared interests and passion rather than via race, class, ethnicity, or shared statehood. I discuss what I call affinity space and its relationships to membership, belonging, equity, and threats to state power.

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  1. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    James Paul Gee

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Gee, J.P. (2020). Affinity. In: What Is a Human?. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50382-6_24

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