TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dennis D. Waskul
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Self-Games and Body-Play
T2  - Personhood in Online Chat and Cybersex
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1096585
N2  - 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.
KW  - Internet, social interaction, fluidity, multiplicity
LA  - English
ER  -