Handbook of Research

on Technoself:

Identity in a Technological
Society
Rocci Luppicini
University of Ottawa, Canada

Volume I

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Table of Contents

Preface xxv

Acknowledgment xxxv

Volume I

Section 1
Theoretical Groundwork for Technoself Research

Chapter 1
The Emerging Field of Technoself Studies (TSS) 1

Rocci Luppicini, University of Ottawa, Canada

Chapter 2
Identity Theories and Technology 26
Robert Andrew Dunn, East Tennessee State University, USA

Chapter 3
The Ontology of theSubject in Digital ization 45
Anna Croon Fors, Umea University, Sweden

Chapter 4
The Language of Technoself: Storytelling, Symbolic Interactionism, and Online Identity 64
Federica Fornaciari, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Chapter 5
Of Paradigms, Theories, and Models: A Conceptual Hierarchical Structure for Communication
Science and Technoself 84
Luciano L 'Abate, Georgia State University, USA

Chapter 6
Mindclone Technoselves: Multi-Substrate Legal Identities, Cyber-Psychology,
and Biocyberethics 105

Martine Rothblatt, Terasem Movement Foundation, USA

Chapter 7
A Run for your [Techno] Self 123
Alessandro Tomasi, Rhode Island College, USA

Chapter 8
The Mediation of Identity: Key Issues in Historic Perspective 137

Stephen Marmura, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Chapter 9
The Digital Soul 157
Daniel Black, Monash University, Australia

Chapter 10
Reasoning about Human Enhancement: Towards a Folk Psychological Model of Human Nature and
Human Identity 175
Samuel Wilson, Monash University, Australia
Nick Haslam, University of Melbourne, Australia

Section 2

Constructing Digital Identity

Chapter 11
Cyber Identity: Our Alter-Ego? 190
Ana-Cristina Ionescu, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (CCIR), Romania

Chapter 12

The Empathy Paradox: Increasing Disconnection in the Age of Increasing Connection 204
Sara Konrath, University of Michigan, USA & University of Rochester Medical Center, USA

Chapter 13
Intellectual Disability, Identity, and the Internet 229
Darren D. Chadwick, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Chris Fullwood, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Caroline J. Wesson, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Chapter 14
Avatars: Portraying, Exploring, and Changing Online and Offline Identities 255
Jesse Fox, The Ohio State University, USA
Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, University of Georgia, USA

Chapter 15
The Ur-Real Sonorous Envelope: Bridge between the Corporeal and the Online Technoself 272
Marlin Bates, IV, University ofthe Pacific, USA
Chapter 16
Immigrants' Internet Use and Identity from an Intergenerational Perspective: Immigrant Senior
Citizens and Youngsters from the Former Soviet Union in Israel 293

Nelly Elias, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Chapter 17
Ancestor Veneration Avatars 308
William Sims Bainbridge, National Science Foundation, USA

Chapter 18

Self-Presence, Explicated: Body, Emotion, and Identity Extension into the Virtual Self 322
Rabindra Ratan, Michigan State University, USA

Chapter 19
Assistive ICT and Young Disabled Persons: Opportunities and Obstacles in Identity
Negotiations 337

Sylvia Soderstrom, Sor-Trondelag University College, Norway

Volume II

Section 3
Social Media and Virtual Life

Chapter 20
The Tangible Lure of the Technoself in the Age of Reality Television 360
Fernando Andacht, University of Ottawa, Canada

Chapter 21
Technoself-Presentation on Social Networks: A Gender-Based Approach 382
Antonio Garcia-Gomez, University ofAlcald de Henares, Spain

Chapter 22
Digitization and Consumerization of Identity, Culture, and Power among Gen Mobinets in
South Africa 399
Chaka Chaka, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa

Chapter 23
Stepping into the (Social Media) Game: Building Athlete Identity via Twitter 419

Jimmy Sanderson, Clemson University, USA

Chapter 24
Self, Self-Presentation, and the Use of Social Applications in Digital Environments 439
Jose Carlos Ribeiro, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Tarcizio Silva, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Chapter 25
A New Trend in Education: Technoself Enhanced Social Learning 456

Li Jin, University of Westminster, UK

Chapter 26
Social Networking and Identity 474

Rachel Barker, University of South Africa, South Africa

Chapter 27
The Need for Identity Construction in Computer-Mediated Professional Communication:
A Community of Practice Perspective 502
Victor Ho, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Chapter 28
"To Be Shot at Without Result": Gaming and the Rhetoric of Immortality 531
Jason Hawreliak, University of Waterloo, Canada

Section 4
Human Enhancement, Robotics, and Society

Chapter 29
A Human Affect Recognition System for Socially Interactive Robots 554
Derek McColl, University of Toronto, Canada

Goldie Nejat, University of Toronto, Canada

Chapter 30

Effects of Human-Machine Integration on the Construction of Identity 574

Francesc Balleste, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

Carme Torras, Institut de Robdtica i Informatica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, Spain

Chapter 31
Building a Technoself: Children's Ideas about and Behavior toward Robotic Pets 592
Gail F. Melson, Purdue University, USA

Chapter 32
Just Doesn't Look Right: Exploring the Impact of Humanoid Robot Integration into Explosive
Ordnance Disposal Teams 609
Julie Carpenter, University of Washington, USA

Chapter 33
Behavioral Analysis of Human-Human Remote Social Interaction Mediated by an Interactive Robot
in a Cooperative Game Scenario 637
Folios Papadopoulos, University ofHertfordshire, UK
Kerstin Dautenhahn, University ofHertfordshire, UK
Wan Ching Ho, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Chapter 34

The Human-Robot Continuum of Self: Where the Other Ends and Another Begins 666

Kristi Scott, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA

Chapter 35
Robot Double: Hiroshi Ishiguro's Reflexive Machines 680

Yvji Sone, Macquarie University, Australia

Chapter 36
Understanding the Human-Machine Interface in a Time of Change 703
Erica Orange, Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc., USA

Chapter 37
Identity in a Technological Society: Governance Implications 720
Marc A. Saner, University of Ottawa, Canada
Jeremy Geelen, University of Ottawa, Canada

Compilation of References xxxvii

About the Contributors cxxix

Index cxl