Self-Games and Body-Play - Dennis D. Waskul

Self-Games and Body-Play

Personhood in Online Chat and Cybersex
Buch | Softcover
168 Seiten
2003
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-6174-8 (ISBN)
36,55 inkl. MwSt
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.

The Author: Dennis D. Waskul is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southern Utah University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Oklahoma State University. Waskul’s empirical studies on online chat, cybersex, identity, and the body have been published in various professional journals.

Reihe/Serie Digital Formations ; 10
Digital Formations ; 9
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 230 mm
Gewicht 260 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-8204-6174-1 / 0820461741
ISBN-13 978-0-8204-6174-8 / 9780820461748
Zustand Neuware
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