New Theoretical Approaches to the Self in Cyber-Culture
Are you thoeorizing that the behaviour of a person, reflected in the cyberspace, can configure a "self" with owned characteristics? Seems to be extremelly interesting that, a new environment like the cuyberspace might let a human being put his "self" into virtual space and express elements of his personality that are well hidden in the real world, up to the point to configure a new "self". If I am through the right track, pls let me know as I belong to a psychologists network and many would be very interested into the topic. Cristian Berrio _________________________________________________________________ Descargue GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer en http://explorer.yupimsn.com/intl.asp.
I'm not sure what parts of the threads you might be referring to here, but i find the 'self' to be very restraining in terms of the internet. I've met over my years on irc at least 3 combinatorial representattions in which many people came together to establish an identity for a certain being. for me, this is where the interest might be, less in the individualistic self and more into the networked self. iow, this is one of the places on the net where you could discuss such things, and discussion of said things are encouraged:) On Monday, January 21, 2002, at 02:43 PM, Cristian Berrio wrote:
Are you thoeorizing that the behaviour of a person, reflected in the cyberspace, can configure a "self" with owned characteristics?
Seems to be extremelly interesting that, a new environment like the cuyberspace might let a human being put his "self" into virtual space and express elements of his personality that are well hidden in the real world, up to the point to configure a new "self".
If I am through the right track, pls let me know as I belong to a psychologists network and many would be very interested into the topic.
Cristian Berrio
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Cristian Berrio asked:
Are you thoeorizing that the behaviour of a person, reflected in the cyberspace, can configure a "self" with owned characteristics?
Is anyone theorizing that the behavior of a person offline is unable to "configure a self"? (Perhaps not absolutely, but cyberspacial configuration is of course not absolute either.)
unable to 'configure the self' is sounding somewhat similar to varieties of schizoanalysis surrounding Felix Guattari's work, which somewhat influenced Turkle's book mentioned earlier in this thread. There are certainly other ways of going about analyzing the self which are different, I tend toward theorizing the unconfigurable self, in part because i can see denying the self as anything except an abstraction due to other theoretical commitments. So yes, there is a somewhat strong tradition there that is slowly making inroads along these lines, but I don't know how many people want to consider this, so I can provide citations and other resources if anyone sends me a private message on it. Ellis Godard wrote:
Cristian Berrio asked:
Are you thoeorizing that the behaviour of a person, reflected in the cyberspace, can configure a "self" with owned characteristics?
Is anyone theorizing that the behavior of a person offline is unable to "configure a self"? (Perhaps not absolutely, but cyberspacial configuration is of course not absolute either.)
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