Face to face: on‐line subjectivity in contemporary Japan
Face to face: on‐line subjectivity in contemporary Japan
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面对面:当代日本的网络主体性
DOI:
10.1080/10357820208713341
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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
Christine R. Yano
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文献类型:
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作者:
H. Katsuno;Christine R. Yano
Merleau-Ponty argues that for a blind person the cane becomes an extension of the realm of the senses. The cane, in other words, fills in for what the blind person lacks in apprehending the world. In cyberspace, the computer user as represented on the screen lacks a body—a phenomenon that Murray and Sixsmith term "disrupted bodies" (1999). This paper analyses the compensations made for the "disrupted bodies" of Japanese computer subjects by asking the following questions: what kinds of extensions of the body might there be in computer-mediated communication; how might these extensions be culturally embedded; and how do these bodily extensions shape the communities of which they are a part? We take as a case study the frequent use of kaomoji (literally, face marks; known in computer studies as emoticons)—manipulations of keyboard symbols to create faces—by email and Internet users in Japan. Our methods include surveys of Internet users in Japan, face-to-face and online interviews, and participant observation in chatrooms from June through