The Virtual Self

Self-presentation and self-knowledge on the Internet

Working draft

May, 2003

By Eugene Gorny
Goldsmiths College, University of London

Contents

• Introduction
• What is the self?
• Projection and introjection
• Subjective and objective self-knowledge
• Modes, strategies and procedures of self-presentation
• The virtual self as a new media object
• An ontology of virtual personality
• Virtual personalities in Russian cyberculture
• General Remarks
• Case studies
• Vulis creatures
• Mai Ivanovich Muxin
• Mirza Babyev
• Ivan Paravozov
• Katya Detkina
• Mary Shelley
• Robot Sergei Datsyuk
• Namniyaz Ashuratova
• The internet as a tool of self-knowledge
• The reflected self: (Re)construction of a virtual person
• The situated self: Symbolic situations
• The text-made self: The words of others
• Conclusions
• Appendices
• Apology of homepage (Mirza Babayev)
• A theory of virtual personality (Mary & Persy Shelley)
• A commentary to The Words of Others (Eugene Gorny)
• Current music (Eugene Gorny & Roman Lejbov)
• References
• About the author

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