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Virtually You - The Internet and the Fracturing of the Self

English · Hardback

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Whether sharing photos or following financial markets, many of us spend a shocking amount of time online. While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us to act with exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma. This new self, which Aboujaoude dubs our "e-personality," manifests itself in every curt email we send, Facebook "friend" we make, and "buy now" button we click. Too potent to be confined online, however, e-personality traits seep offline, too, making us impatient, unfocused, and urge-driven even after we log off. This first scrutiny of the virtual world's transformative power on our psychology shows us how real life is being reconfigured in the image of a chat room, and how our identity increasingly resembles that of our avatar.--From publisher description.

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Authors Elias Aboujaoude, Elias (Stanford University) Aboujaoude, Zachary Aboujaoude
Publisher Norton W W Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 21.04.2011
 
EAN 9780393070644
ISBN 978-0-393-07064-4
Dimensions 163 mm x 243 mm x 28 mm
Subject Guides > Health

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