Self-games and body-play : personhood in online chat and cybersex af Dennis D. Waskul (1969-) (Bog)

Forfatter: Dennis D. Waskul (1969-)
Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 190
Forlag: Peter Lang
Udgivelsesår: 2003
One of the most fascinating dimensions of online chat and cybersex are the ways that their medium, the Internet, allows people to reconfigure relationships between self, body, and social interaction. Online chat participants discursively write a self into existence in a disembodied medium that allows for extreme fluidity and multiplicity; cybersex participants evoke bodies in words and images, manipulating relationships between selfhood and the corporeal body. Perhaps never before have so many people been actively involved in social psychological experiments in which they redefine themselves in ways that are so distinctively at the cutting edge of important social and cultural transformations. Based on over 150 interviews with online chat and cybersex participants, Self-Games and Body-Play is an empirically grounded analysis of how these unique experiences provide a lens for better understanding the nature of personhood in everyday life.
Titel: Self-games and body-play : personhood in online chat and cybersex

Sammendrag: Bogen undersøger, hvordan online chat og cybersex giver mennesker mulighed for at eksperimentere med og omforme deres identitet. Gennem mere end 150 interviews beskriver Dennis D. Waskul, hvordan deltagere i chatrum konstruerer et selv gennem skrift og symboler i et virtuelt, delvist kropsløst rum. Han analyserer, hvordan de bruger cybersex til at skabe og manipulere billedet af kroppen, og hvordan forholdet mellem selv, krop, fantasi og social interaktion forskydes i digitale miljøer. Værket kobler empiriske cases med socialpsykologisk og sociologisk teori og bruger disse online praksisser som prisme til at forstå bredere forandringer i personhood og hverdagsliv i informationsalderen.
Type: Paperback