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Self-Games and Body-Play: Personhood in Online Chat and Cybersex [Paperback / softback]

  • Format: Paperback / softback, 168 pages, height x width x depth: 230x160x13 mm, weight: 260 g
  • Series: Digital Formations 9
  • Pub. Date: 02-Apr-2003
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0820461741
  • ISBN-13: 9780820461748
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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 168 pages, height x width x depth: 230x160x13 mm, weight: 260 g
  • Series: Digital Formations 9
  • Pub. Date: 02-Apr-2003
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0820461741
  • ISBN-13: 9780820461748
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Basing his musings on some interviews with some 150 individuals involved with online chat, textual cybersex, and televideo cybersex, Waskul (sociology, Southern Utah U.) "posits the Internet as a lens through which we may better understand the nature of personhood in contemporary society." Applying concepts of social psychology and postmodern theory, he explores how symbolic interactions reveal the communication of self. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Chapter One Everyday Life through the Lens of the Internet 1(18)
Social Interaction and the Internet: Play and the Sensual Pleasures of Conversation
7(3)
Antienvironments: Peeping through Doors of Perception
10(1)
Self, Social Interaction, and Cultural Storytelling: Some Words on Theory and Method
11(6)
Notes
17(2)
Chapter Two Cyberself: Selfhood in Online Chat 19 (36)
Cyberspace, Cyberplace, and Social Reality on the Internet
20(4)
Self and the Means of Social Interaction
24(4)
Cyberself: Selfhood in Online Chat
28(22)
The Multiple and Asynchronistic Form of Online Chat
28(3)
Creativity and Constraint: Emoticons, Idioculture, and Online Chat
31(7)
Cyberselfhood: Writing Self into Existence
38(6)
Anonymity and Disembodiment: Hyperfluidity and Doubt
44(4)
Communication Play: Self-Games and the Multiplicity of Cyberselves
48(2)
Conclusions
50(3)
Notes
53(2)
Chapter Three
Accounting for the Cracks: Self-Multiplicity and the Cultural Prerogative of a Unitary Self
55 (4)
A Cultural Crack
57(2)
Negotiating the Cultural Crack: Embracing a Postmodern Aesthetic
59 (2)
Negotiating the Cultural Crack: A Real Self in an Unreal World
61(5)
Conclusions
66(2)
Notes
68(3)
Chapter Four Text Cybersex: Outercourse and the Subject Body 71(24)
Outercourse: The Body in Sex and Cybersex
72(2)
Self, Body, Society, Sex, and Cybersex
74(3)
A Dramaturgical Approach to the Problem of Virtual Reality
77(7)
Cybersex: The Simmelian Adventure of Outercourse
Text Cybersex and the Social Production of the Virtual Body
84(5)
Conclusions
89(4)
Body, Self, and Virtuality
90(3)
Notes
93(2)
Chapter Five Televideo Cybersex: The Naked Self and the Object Body 95(36)
The Object and Subject Body: Sex, Objects, and Sex Objects
96(4)
Nudity and the Net: Voyeurs and Exhibitionists
100(3)
Sexuality, Alter-Sexuality, and Cybersex
103(3)
Televideo Cybersex: Being a Body and Ephemeral Self-Reduction
106(15)
The Eros of Stripping, Being Naked, and the Naked Self
108(2)
Body-Play: Erotic Looking Glasses and the Re-enchantment of the Sexual Body
110(4)
Just Another Body: The Face, Self, and Body
114(4)
The Gendered Body in Televideo Cybersex
118(3)
Conclusions
121(6)
Televideo Cybersex and the Profanation of the Sacred Sexual Body
122(2)
Reading the Object/Subject Body: Virtual and Corporeal Bodies, Everyday Life, and the Internet
124(3)
Notes
127(4)
Chapter Six Transparency and Transformation: The Internet, Personhood, and Everyday Life 131(12)
Notes
141(2)
Appendix Methods and Data: Doing Ethnographic Research on the Internet 143(12)
Framing Internet Studies
143(3)
Online Chat, Text Cybersex, and Televideo Cybersex: The Methods and Data of Three Related Studies
146(2)
Methodological Advantages and Disadvantages
148(5)
Notes
153(2)
References 155(8)
Index 163