Presentation of the virtual Beyond-self on cyber stage: Real, constructed, staged and/or masked?
Titel:
Presentation of the virtual Beyond-self on cyber stage: Real, constructed, staged and/or masked?
Auteur:
Barker, Rachel
Verschenen in:
Communicatio
Paginering:
Jaargang 34 (2008) nr. 2 pagina's 189-209
Jaar:
2008-11
Inhoud:
The main aim of the article is to enhance the realisation that cyberspace creates a different setting of virtuality where a virtual self is presented, thereby eliciting a notion that there was once either an ideal era of bliss or a Utopian promise of universal self-realisation. From a communicative perspective, it is propagated that virtual communities and knowledge creation as consequences of the accelerating rate of change and the subsequent cyber revolution emphasise the increasing importance of the virtual self, especially on cyber stage. Following a modifed categorical communicative imperative analysis with deliberative drawing on various philosophical and communicative paradigms from the premodernist through to the modernist and postmodernist eras, culminated in the 'discovery' of the theatrical virtual self. This the author subsequently labelled Beyond-self as a logical fow following Levinas's notion of the I (the self, the ego), the Other (which is diffcult to make sense of because it is a metaphysical face without an actual face) and the Third (the way you look at yourself in the eyes of the Other and 'correcting' the Other as a result). The main premises are based on the argument that a new formulation of the virtual self as the Beyond-self can be invoked in the cyber-beyond-modernist era, not only to facilitate social interaction among members, but more signifcantly to infuence the way in which members present the virtual self through the use of theatrical metaphors to the Other - whether this self is real, constructed, staged and/or masked.
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