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- Title
Digital Technology, Trauma, and Identity: Redefining the Authentic Self of the 21st Century.
- Authors
Patrick-Weber, Courtney
- Abstract
In this article, I argue that our relationship with digital technologies today traumatizes us because we give these devices ontological value and because these devices blur traditional notions of time and space. In an effort to survive this trauma, many of us split our identities online, creating a dividual rather than individual identity that trickles into our offline selves. However, because we tend to adhere to a Platonic notion of authenticity, a notion that believes we each have a unique, individual core within us, this dividual self is shamed by society as "inauthentic" and therefore morally corrupt. I argue that we need to redefine what it means to be authentic for the 21st century digital ecosystem and embrace our dividual survivor status as the new authentic self.
- Subjects
DIGITAL technology; IDENTITY (Philosophical concept); AUTHENTICITY (Philosophy); ONTOLOGY; TECHNO culture
- Publication
Technoculture: An Online Journal of Technology in Society, 2014, Vol 4, p1
- ISSN
1938-0526
- Publication type
Article