Social self in a virtual world

Thomas Hansson ()
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Thomas Hansson: CSIR, Blekinge Inst of Technology, Postal: CSIR, School of Management, Blekinge Inst of Technology, 371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden

No 2012/08, Working Papers from Blekinge Institute of Technology, Department of Industrial Economics

Abstract: Dialectic contradictions at work between construction and experiencing of social self by individual or collective influences. The human species is able to combine separate but related processes for social and material interaction by means of individual input to collective activity systems. It is, however, a bit of a mystery how the balancing process between activity, consciousness and personality materializes in modern artifacts, by means of social support and as virtual agency. This study suggests a way of dealing with the features of collective virtual personality.

Keywords: Activity; consciousness; personality; artifact; social support; dialectics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2012-09-20
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-soc
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