Conflicting parties worldwide increasingly use the internet in a strategic way. Conflicts carried out on a local level thus achieve a new dimension: This new kind of medialisation results in their expansion into global cyberspace. Based on ethnographic research on the online activities of Christian and Muslim actors in the Moluccan conflict (1999-2002) this study investigates processes of identity construction and community building on the internet. The author thus makes an innovative contribution to conflict and internet research and methodologically paves the way for a new cyber anthropology.
