RE: [-empyre-] mobile media

["Jenny Weight" <jenny.weight@rmit.edu.au>]

Hi Joanna

I like your point about multiple selves and fluid identities, as Bauman
would call it--although he's a bit negative about it--and my Phd
research is in this are too.

I think we've got to get passed the idea that self is singular and
stable. Our pervasive technologies and in particular the phone, which
allows this little windows into another reality which is with us all the
time, shows that we are actually really good at juggling multiple
realities and identities. Not many people go psychotic as a result ...

I think the idea of stable selves is maybe a modernist--or
earlier--thing that our collaborations with pervasive technologies are
gradually talking us out of. This is an effect of computer games, too,
and maybe other social software.

You might be right about getting closed off from spontaneous contact
with others. In some ways I think the phone is an apocalyptic
technolgoy. It is a displacement technology...

cheers jenny weight, rmit


Jenny Weight
Lecturer in networked and programmed media
School of Applied Communication, RMIT
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