Stream: Culture/Politics/Technology, Vol 3, No 1 (2010)

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Identity VS E-dentity

Katarina Kuruc

Abstract


In our current technologically-mediated environment there is in fact a fourth dimension that needs to be taken in to consideration which plays an equally vital role in shaping our identity: that of technology. What happens when experience takes place outside the realm of traditional reality and shifts virtually into cyber-space? Does our identity become free-floating? In other words, because experience relies on our senses and perceptions, when our experiences become mediated what happens to the process of identity creation?

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