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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2013 9:27:31 GMT -5
Professor Enfield occupies the chair of Ethnolinguistics at Radboud University in Nijmegen; and not only that he is also a "senior staff scientist" at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Well! We hope he is not disturbed by Dutchmen; but anyway he has found time to write in and let us know about a certain psychiatrist, Mr. Elias Aboujaoude, who focuses on problems of the "e-personality" in the context of our new on-line world. Ranging from unchecked on-line aggression through loss of control over privacy to obsessive-compulsive behaviour, these problems stem from new affordances of the internet. ["Affordance" is one of Professor Enfield's favourite words. Although it is not in the dictionary he uses it constantly. Perhaps he invented it himself.] The internet provides for real-time, fully networked social interaction does it not kleines c, but with the curious property that the medium is essentially independent from our bodies. In this self-engineered environment, the physical body is rendered almost obsolete, still needed by its owner for little more than the sustenance that keeps the soul in play. It makes possible a new kind of self, Aboujaoude explains, and this new self is both compulsive and impulsive.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2013 14:22:37 GMT -5
Good evening, Sydney Grew. As you know, I am interested in the internet, and therefore wish to reply to your final point: " ... The internet provides for real-time, fully networked social interaction does it not kleines c, but with the curious property that the medium is essentially independent from our bodies. In this self-engineered environment, the physical body is rendered almost obsolete, still needed by its owner for little more than the sustenance that keeps the soul in play. It makes possible a new kind of self, Aboujaoude explains, and this new self is both compulsive and impulsive." I have pondered this problem for many years, and have come to the conclusion that at least for me, it is important to attempt to integrate virtual reality with reality. 'Almost' is the key word above, Sydney Grew. The physical body cannot be rendered obsolete, even online. I am, after all, kleines c, even if I have plenty of help with some of my postings. My physicality remains an integral part of my online identity!
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