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Our research seeks to understand the meanings that virtual subjects make of their dwellings on Facebook. To achieve this, classic Grounded Theory Method in particular Glazer’s version (classic version) was applied. Our sample comprised 17 Facebook virtual actors who were interviewed using unstructured in-depth interview technique. As the result suggest, we may say that six main categories, including virtual emancipation, virtual form of real action, fantasy formations, pleasure of consumption and threat of control, spatial interactions and the proliferation of liquid fear are interconnected with each other. Also, these categories articulate the experience of facebook subjects in relation to the “virtualization of meaning” - the core category. By linking these categories in the theoretical coding phase, the theoretical diagram was explored and presented. The theoretical foundation of this diagram lies on the entanglement of cyberspace and real space in the experiences of virtual subjects on Facebook’s space. This implies that the possibility of assuming a “dialectics of semantic spaces”. There is a dialectics between semantic spaces.
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