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Being and Appearing: Human Interfaces in the Digital Age

Being and Appearing: Human Interfaces in the Digital Age
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Author(s): Lars-Erik Janlert (UmeƄ University, Sweden)
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 3
Source title: Emerging Trends and Challenges in Information Technology Management
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-019-6.ch056
ISBN13: 9781616921286
EISBN13: 9781466665361

Abstract

Persons present themselves to the world. The relation between appearance and being is constrained in various ways. The ongoing virtualization disrupts existing mechanisms serving to keep appearance in alignment with being, increases interpretative uncertainty, and threatens to destroy the very distinction; giving us cause to reconsider our notions of identity.

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