I have problem in some of the Turkle’s explanation of identity, especially his presupposition of the separation of the real world and the Multi-User Dungeon. He confines the discussion of on-line identity in a relative narrow framework by suggesting that one has a different identity in cyberspace. Turkle said, “MUDs provide worlds for anonymous social interaction in which you can play a role as close to or as far away from you real self.” He also stated, “Computer don’t just do things for us, they do things to us, including to our ways of thinking about ourselves and other people.”
What is a real self? I doubt what is a real self, and if there were an entity of real self. I do not into believing the concept of circumscribing real world and virtual space. The world we live and the cyber space are all real to me. ‘Self’ is a collective consciousness, belonging to incessantly construction. We as human, the society, and the new cyber power have held agency, consistently writing, and rewriting, editing and reediting, performing and representing the vague idea of selves. We have different identities—social, religious, ideological, political, cultural, economical, and now if CMC is concerned, cyber-spatial.
I am more comfortable with Jacque Lacan, Judith Butler, and Stuart Hall’s discourse of self and identity—a constructive and imaginary one and the one has more possibilities. Lacan’s mirror stage suggests that people sees them selves in others, and in interactions. Butler said, “Gender is what is put on, invariably, under constraint, daily and incessantly, with anxiety and pleasure…Gender is an act…which is open to splitting, self-parody, self-criticism…”
A baby does not born to be a socially known boy or girl until they under go the socially imitative construction through its father, mother, and other family members. We are not creating a new self in Internet Communication Technologies—we are experiencing the different part of this collective consciousness. People know who they are through series of practices, and even their practices in cyber space.
Identity is an act. Wherever you are.
What is a real self? I doubt what is a real self, and if there were an entity of real self. I do not into believing the concept of circumscribing real world and virtual space. The world we live and the cyber space are all real to me. ‘Self’ is a collective consciousness, belonging to incessantly construction. We as human, the society, and the new cyber power have held agency, consistently writing, and rewriting, editing and reediting, performing and representing the vague idea of selves. We have different identities—social, religious, ideological, political, cultural, economical, and now if CMC is concerned, cyber-spatial.
I am more comfortable with Jacque Lacan, Judith Butler, and Stuart Hall’s discourse of self and identity—a constructive and imaginary one and the one has more possibilities. Lacan’s mirror stage suggests that people sees them selves in others, and in interactions. Butler said, “Gender is what is put on, invariably, under constraint, daily and incessantly, with anxiety and pleasure…Gender is an act…which is open to splitting, self-parody, self-criticism…”
A baby does not born to be a socially known boy or girl until they under go the socially imitative construction through its father, mother, and other family members. We are not creating a new self in Internet Communication Technologies—we are experiencing the different part of this collective consciousness. People know who they are through series of practices, and even their practices in cyber space.
Identity is an act. Wherever you are.
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