Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment

@book{citeulike:361508, abstract = {What does it mean to be embodied online? What are the conditions of cybersubjectivity? In Material Virtualities, Jenny Sund\'{e}n explores the rarely acknowledged borderland between typists and textual bodies, speaking and writing, and physicality and imagination in online encounters. Through careful ethnographic investigations of a text-based virtual world called WaterMOO, Sund\'{e}n shows how texts, bodies, and machines are linked together in ways that demand a new understanding of the writing subject. Drawing on contemporary feminist and queer theory, she questions the opposition between disembodied, high-tech masculinity and embodied, earth-bound femininity, insisting on the need for a radical materialization of cybercultural studies that discloses the "virtual" as itself embodied.}, author = {Sund\'{e}n, Jenny }, citeulike-article-id = {361508}, comment = {Cited by danah boyd. See http://www.zephoria.org/alterity/archives/2005/04/jenny\_sundan\_ma.html}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {0820462047}, keywords = {embodiment, ethnography, identity, material\_artifact}, month = {September}, posted-at = {2005-10-22 12:33:35}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Peter Lang Publishing}, series = {Digital Formations}, title = {Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment}, url = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20\&path=ASIN/0820462047}, volume = {13}, year = {2003} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:361508 L3 - citeulike-article-id:361508 N2 - What does it mean to be embodied online? What are the conditions of cybersubjectivity? In Material Virtualities, Jenny Sundén explores the rarely acknowledged borderland between typists and textual bodies, speaking and writing, and physicality and imagination in online encounters. Through careful ethnographic investigations of a text-based virtual world called WaterMOO, Sundén shows how texts, bodies, and machines are linked together in ways that demand a new understanding of the writing subject. Drawing on contemporary feminist and queer theory, she questions the opposition between disembodied, high-tech masculinity and embodied, earth-bound femininity, insisting on the need for a radical materialization of cybercultural studies that discloses the "virtual" as itself embodied. SE - Digital Formations SN - 0820462047 TI - Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment PB - Peter Lang Publishing VL - 13 KW - embodiment KW - ethnography KW - identity KW - material_artifact N1 - Cited by danah boyd. See http://www.zephoria.org/alterity/archives/2005/04/jenny_sundan_ma.html AU - Sundén, Jenny PY - 2003/09/01/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0820462047 ER -