Technology and Community: The Changing Face of Identity

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics

卷:12

Tania Honey¹  Rhian Morgan¹ 

[1] James Cook University, Australia;

关键词: cyborg;    digital;    embodiment;    feminism;    auto-ethnography;    ethnography;   

DOI  :  10.25120/etropic.12.1.2013.3394

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article examines notions of self in cyber-communities, through a cross-disciplinary dialectic on digital embodiment. The article is based on conversations between a literary study on cyborg-feminist and science fiction theory and auto-ethnographic research data from the virtual world Entropia Universe. The conversation explores digital embodiment by asking the questions, "Am I cyborg?" and, "Why should I care?"The discussion draws on Haraway's notions of cyborg embodiment and Brey, Idhe, and Merleau-Ponty's works on relational embodiment to provide a theoretical exploration of selfhood in a liminal community of symbionts, cyborgs, and avatars.

【 授权许可】

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