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2012
Schechtman, Marya (2012): The Story of my (Second) Life. Virtual Worlds and Narrative Identity. In: Philosophy & Technology 25 (3), S. 329-343. DOI: 10.1007/s13347-012-0062-y

Abstract: A small but significant number of residents of Second Life (SL) insist that SL is as real to them as Real Life (RL) and that their SL avatars are as much themselves as their offscreen selves. This paper investigates whether this claim can be literally true in any philosophically interesting way. Using a narrative account of personal identity I argue that there is a way of understanding these identity claims according to which the actions and experiences of the offscreen user and the online avatar are indeed actions and experiences of a single person. In the course of describing how this is so, the paper also uncovers new insights into how a narrative approach to personal identity should be structured and developed.

Keywords: Anerkennung, Anerkennung und technische Systeme, Favoriten, Identität, Informations- & Kommunikationstechnik, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Modelle/Theorien, Narrative Online identity, Narrative Online-Identität, Online, Personal identity, Realtechnik, Second Life, Selbst, Soziale Angemessenheit, Technik, Virtual Life, Virtual worlds, Zeitschrift: Philosophy and Technology
2010
Ward, Andrew (2010): Virtual Communities. In: Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 14 (3), S. 237-251. DOI: 10.5840/techne201014324

Abstract: The Internet, as it exists today, is an outgrowth of the late 1960’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. During the 1980’s, the National Science Foundation established a high-speed, high-capacity network called NSFnet connecting many universities and government agencies. Finally, with the creation of the World Wide Web and the development and diffusion of inexpensive, reliable and easy to use public Internet access, electronic information technologies connect an increasingly large portion of the population. As a result, the communities with which we are all familiar, communities based on geographic proximity, have changed. These sorts of changes raise many interesting but difficult questions. This paper focuses on two of those questions. First, what does the increasing use of and reliance on electronically mediated communications portend for our understanding of human communities, and second, what sorts of socio-political concepts and relationships best characterize the new “virtual community”?

Keywords: Art des Kommunikationsmediums, community, Disziplin, elektronische Kommunikation, Gemeinschaft, Informations- & Kommunikationstechnik, Interaktion, Kommunikation, Kooperation, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Philosophie, Realtechnik, Situationsbedingter Kontext, Soziale Angemessenheit, Technik, Technikphilosophie, Virtual Life, Zeitschrift: techne

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