A Phantasmal Media Approach to Empowerment, Identity, and Computation

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dc.contributor.authorHarrell, D. Fox
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-06T18:54:13Z
dc.date.available2015-10-06T18:54:13Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-01-23
dc.description.abstractFocusing on questions of social identity, empowerment and computation, D. Fox Harrell explores the emerging world of “phantasmal identities,” that moment when the meaning of social identity is complicated by its intersection with computing technologies including social networking, gaming, virtual worlds and more. Here, social identities are not addressed only through persistent issues of class, gender, sex, race, and ethnicity, but also through dynamic construction of social categories, body language, discourse, metaphorical thought, gesture, fashion, and so on. When these “real” identities meet their counterparts in the virtual world, the results are identities that are a sudden blend of cultural ideas and sensory imagination, namely the increasing development of “phantasmal identities.” Dr. D. Fox Harrell, Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusUnrevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipArthur Kroker, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, Digital Inflections, Cultural, Social and Political Thoughten_US
dc.identifier.citationHarrell, D. Fox. "A Phantasmal Media Approach to Empowerment, Identity, and Computation." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. 23 January 2013. Presentation.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://pactac.net/2013/01/a-phantasmal-media-approach-to-empowerment-identity-and-computation/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6745
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPacific Centre for Technology and Cultureen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Inflections: Visions for the Posthuman Futureen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectphantasmal media
dc.subjectcomputation
dc.subjectempowerment
dc.subjectidentity
dc.subjectgaming
dc.subjectvirtual worlds
dc.subjectPacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC)
dc.titleA Phantasmal Media Approach to Empowerment, Identity, and Computationen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US

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