Assumption of Different Personalities Over Internet
Interpersonal Computing and Technology
From: Mauri Collins <ma...@cac.psu.edu>
>From: gene o'regon <ge...@sqn.com>
>
> scholars such as ms turkle have commented on this before, but for
>the first time i'm seeing it at close hand, with friends. i don't know
>enough about the personal psychology of this to say it's good or bad, but it
>certainly expands the imagination of the performers to a considerable extent.
> can someone point me to sources for discussion of this point?
> thanks,
> gene
there is a lot about this in the MOO/MUD/MAUD lit, where the
assumption of alternate personalities is the name of the game..
try http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/People/cph/moos.html for a list of
sources for papers...some of the better ones came out of
lambda moo and xerox parc...like
VirtualIdentities.ps: (post-script file)
Virtual Identities: The Social Construction of Cybered Selves
The Ph.D. dissertation of Christina Allen, formerly a student
Northwestern University and now at Electric Communities,
Inc. (cal...@communities.com).
file://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/MOO/papers/README
and then there is always Irving Goffman's "The Presentation of Self in
Everyday Life"...it has been around for 30? years or so...but it still
FITS and has great explanatory power :-)
Sometimes it is not an "assumpution" of a personality...but rather the
liberation of one...I have one friend that I knew on line for a year
or more before we did f2f...a vibrant resounding net personality...who is
painfully shy and almost whispers in real life...
and then there are some of us who appear loud or brash f2f...who come
across much better online :-)
/mauri
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