EAN: 9780820461748

SELF-GAMES AND BODY-PLAY - DENNIS D WASKUL KART...

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.

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