scholarly journals DISEMBODIMENT AND CHANGES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL BORDERS AS THE EFFECTS OF NORMATIVE USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES. MESSAGE 1

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-228
Author(s):  
Наталия Васильевна Коптева
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
The Core ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Real Self ◽  
Information Objects

В условиях глобального антропологического кризиса, связанного с распространением технологий, которые не соответствуют телесному опыту человека (В. А. Подорога), явно недостаточно психологических исследований, ограничивающихся констатацией феномена, называемого развоплощением (disembodiement), бестелесным статусом, дематериализацией, анонимностью пользователя в киберпространстве. Предлагается основанный на концепции британского экзистенциального психолога Р. Лэйнга авторский конструкт невоплощенности в интернете, представляющий собой последствие его нормативного применения. Формула «я» ↔ (тело–другой), «я» ↔ (тело–мир), которой Р. Лэйнг определяет клинический способ невоплощенного бытия в самом общем виде, соответствует как факту технологического развоплощения, так и технологическому способу невоплощенного бытия (при интернет-зависимости) со свойственным ему структурированием и ненормативной границей в ядре. Невоплощенность в интернете, создающая предпосылки путаницы на границе между Я и не-Я, сопоставляется с системообразующим измерением последствий нормативного применения информационных технологий в модели Е. И. Рассказовой, В. А. Емелина, А. Ш. Тхостова – изменением психологических границ. Делается вывод о том, что в информационную эпоху они устанавливаются в опыте двух Я, реального, подлинно основанного на своем теле, и виртуального, применительно к которому самовыражение «границы тела» теряет смысл. Расширение и размывание психологических границ соотносятся с виртуализацией Я-пользователя. Его субъективные убеждения в доступности и контролируемости других людей, объектов, информации, являющиеся критериями изменения границ, рассматриваются как вполне применимые к невоплощенности. В качестве ее собственных критериев, помимо рефлексии отстраненности от тела, названы чувство безопасности (в связи с анонимностью) и ощущения утраты реальности Я, неполноты, иллюзорности онлайн-бытия. While we live in times of anthropological crisis caused by spread of technologies which do not match to people’s body experience (V. A. Podoroga), only the insufficient number of psychological studies acknowledge the phenomenon of disembodiment. Some researchers refer to it as the bodiless state, dematerialization or anonymity of a user in cyberspace. In this study we suggest a theoretical construct of disembodiment on the Internet as the effect of normative use of information technologies. It is based on the conception by the British existential psychologist R. Laing. His formula of the self: self ↔ (body-other), self ↔ (body-world), which describes a clinical way of unembodied being, broadly corresponds to both the fact of technological disembodiment and a technological way of disembodied being in Internet addiction with its inherent structuring and a non-normative border in the core of the self. We compare the disembodiment on the Internet, which leads to confusion on the boundary between the self and nonself, to the framework consequence of the normative use of information technologies in a model by E. I. Rasskazova, V. A. Emelin and A. Sh. Tkhostov – changes of psychological borders. We come to a conclusion that In the digital age the borders are set in the experience of two selves. The real self is genuinely based on the body and the virtual self isn’t, to the extent when the very expression «boundaries of a body» becomes meaningless. Indefinitely expanded blurry borders correspond to the virtualization of a user’s self. The user’s beliefs that other people and information objects are available and controllable are symptoms of changes of borders and can also describe the disembodiment. The disembodiment is also characterized by feeling of disengagement from the body, sense of security on account of anonymity, deficit of reality of the self and incompleteness and illusiveness of the online existence.

scholarly journals DISEMBODIMENT ON THE INTERNET AS A NEW FORM OF TECHNOLOGICAL SELF-ALIENATION (BASED ON THE STUDY OF STUDENTS OF HUMANITARIAN INSTITUTES OF HIGHER EDUCATION)

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-169
Author(s):  
N.V. Kopteva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Cyber Culture ◽  
Internet Environment

Phenomenon of disembodiment of users of information technologies in virtual reality, in particular as a special form of self-alienation, was already noted by the first representatives of cyber culture. However, psychologists have not properly analyzed it yet, perhaps, due to the usual peripheral position of the problem of disembodiment of a physical body in psychology. In the present study we continue to develop our theoretical and empirical construct of the Disembodiment on the Internet (N.V. Kopteva, A.Yu. Kalugin, L.Ya. Dorfman) as a psychological impact of the use of contemporary information technologies in areas related to self-alienation and alienation. The construct is based on the conception of unembodiment of the mental self from the body by a British psychiatrist R. Laing, which is considered to be one of the fundamental psychiatric conceptions of disembodiment of the physical self. R. Laing’s description of the ‘detachment’ of schizoids from their own body helps understand the specifics of existential positions of embodiment - disembodiment determined by sociocultural, technological factors and choices made by individuals themselves. Our study was performed on a sample of active Internet users - students of humanitarian institutes of higher education (aged from 17 to 25 years) - with the use of the Disembodiment on the Internet diagnostic procedure. We revealed groups that differentiated in the severity of disembodiment and created their psychological portraits according to patterns of disembodiment, which include experience of unbodiliness of the virtual self, incompleteness and secondariness of the technological way of being limited by the Internet environment and Internet addiction. We also empirically detected the effects of disembodiment on the alienation of students in different aspects of their life (from who they are, from their families, in interpersonal communication, from their studies and the society) ranging from ‘vegetativeness’ to adventurism.

Inspiring Hate

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall Rogan
Keyword(s):  
Computational Linguistic ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Core ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
Radical Ideology ◽  
Linguistic Analyses

Although Usama bin Laden is dead, the radical ideology that underscored his actions and those of his followers continues to live in his written and spoken communiqués, as well as those of other leaders of the jihadist movement. Of interest to this investigation is the internet publication Inspire, produced by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). At the core of these documents are the identity constructions of Self and Other. Previous research of terrorist writings highlights the centrality of Self and Other framing in advocacy for violence. Employing computational linguistic analyses, this investigation explored the identity frames published in Inspire. Results indicate that characterizations of the Self are as the victim of oppression by the Other, countered by frames of morality, purity, spirituality, and honor. Comparatively, the Other is framed as the actor towards the Self, engaging in aggressive, militaristic, and oppressive behaviors.

scholarly journals Unembodiment in the Internet. Part 2. Psychometric Verification of the Questionnaire

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-233
Author(s):  
N.V. Kopteva ◽  
A.Yu. Kalugin ◽  
L.Ya. Dorfman
Keyword(s):  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Embodied Self

The purpose of present study is to develop and verify the questionnaire aimed at assessing the degree of unembodiment in the Internet as a consequence of using modern information technologies. The use of modern information technologies is associated with disembodiment, liberation of the Self from the body and related experiences. Immersion in virtual reality and “disembodiment” can cause the existential position of “unembodiement”, the features of which, according to the concept of the English psychologist R. Lang, are most clearly manifested in the clinic of schizoids. The study was conducted in the form of a psychodiagnostic survey, during which the reliability and validity of the developed method for assessing unembodiement on the Internet was tested. The main sample of the study was 809 people (31% of males), mostly university students, aged 17 to 25 years (M=18.73; SD=0.98). Smaller samples were used to study convergent and discriminant validity: 423, 324, 148 and 128 people. Correlations with measures of psychological consequences of Internet use, self-efficacy and life-meaning orientations reported convergent validity, and correlations with measures of intelligence and creativity reported discriminant validity. The results of principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis (CFI=0.936, TLI=0.925, RMSEA=0.055, SRMR=0.059) confirm the construct validity of the method, which includes three subscales (Unembodiment as Virtualization, The Preference of the Internet, and Vitality of the Embodied Self) and a general scale (Unembodiment in the Internet). The one-step reliability of the scales varied from 0.7 to 0.9. The scales Vitality of the Embodied Self and The Preference of the Internet had a high level of discrimination, the scale Unembodiment as virtualization ― moderate. The developed questionnaire meets the requirements of validity and reliability and can be used to study the phenomenon of unembodiment on the Internet.

scholarly journals Listening to the Self: The Shawshank Redemption and the Technology of Music

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel K. L. Chua
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Special Effect ◽  
The Core ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sound Technology

Abstract Music has often been used to symbolize and express ontological experiences. This article explores a mode of nineteenth-century self-audition where music captures a glimpse of the freedom that lies at the core of the subject. This mode of listening has intensified with the development of modern technology and is still prevalent in constructing the identity of the self. The opera scene from the Shawshank Redemption not only is an example of this special effect, but provides a narrative of how music achieves this affect, creating an ideal and virtual self through sound technology.

Uncovering the French-speaking jihadisphere: An exploratory analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Ducol
Keyword(s):  
Online Community ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Core ◽  
Virtual Links ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Personal Media

Terrorist groups have exploited the internet and other information technologies to advance their strategies since the mid-1990s. Violent jihadi groups are no exception. They have located the internet at the core of their media strategies, which has given birth to a vibrant global jihadisphere: an online community of militants and sympathizers united by their common adherence to a global Salafi jihadi ideology. Not only do jihadi groups devote increasing energy to attempting to connect with global audiences, but jihadi sympathizers from all around the world are more involved than ever in widening the spread of jihadi online content through para-personal media. The expanding use of non-Arabic languages such as French, English, German, Russian and Dutch by jihadi groups and ideologues has not yet been adequately examined in the academic literature. This article represents a preliminary effort at delineating the nature of the French-speaking jihadisphere, including discussion of the major websites and forums composing it, the real and virtual links between these, and how forum users originally learned of the forums’ existence.

Discipline and Excel: Techniques of the Self and Body and the Logic of Competing

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juha Heikkala
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Core ◽  
Independent Locus ◽  
The Individual

In the practical discourse of sport the focus is on the individual athlete as the autonomous and independent locus of action. This discourse is deconstructed from a, poststructuralist perspective. It is argued that in sport the disciplinary techniques of the body and self, as depicted by Michel Foucault, are both an instrument and an effect of competing. Disciplinary and normalizing practices such as bodily exercises or filling in a training diary are instruments for athletes to transcend their current performance, which is the core of the logic of competing. Furthermore, disciplining is the outcome of this “rationale” to excel. Giddens’s notion of structure is used to explicate the structure of competing. Yet his Cartesian conception of agents as knowledgeable is qualified, that is, within the practices of training and the structure of competing, some consequences of these practices escape athletes’ intention. The constitution of athletes’ subjectivity and even the consequences of the process of competing may be beyond their control.

scholarly journals The Significance of Ramana Maharshi's Self-Enquiry for Meditation

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
DAYEONG PARK ◽  
SURESH L. BARNAWAL
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Aspect ◽  
Practical Aspect ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
Crucial Part

Seeking happiness has become a crucial part of human beings due to a consistent rise in anxiety and stress over the passing years. As a result, the importance of Indian meditation practices has risen worldwide. Especially, Ramana Maharshi's Self-enquiry is one of the significant meditation practices found in India. The purpose of this paper is to show that Mokṣa (liberation), where one is free from suffering, can be attained by the practice of Self-enquiry, which is simple but powerful because it immediately pierces to the core, the Self. Ramana is the ancient traditional master in India, and he is also known for using silence in the instruction of his disciples. The essence of Self-enquiry is that it is not to realize something anew but to abide as the Self, in the here and now with aware affirmation "I am already Thou." Ramana's life, the experience of his great awakening, the Self, 'I'-thought, the body, the theoretical aspect of Self-enquiry as meditation by Ramana and the practical aspect of Self-enquiry as meditation by Prof. Kim Kyeungmin are presented to illustrate the significance of this method. It is pointed out that Maharshi's Self-enquiry is more valuable and productive than other meditation techniques.

scholarly journals Intrapersonal conflicts of bloggers: psychological perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
Olena Secheiko
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Spearman’S Rank Correlation ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
Spearman’S Rank Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Special Character ◽  
Real Self

Abstract Aim. The aim of the study was to establish depth and substantive characteristics of intrapersonal conflicts of bloggers. Internal conflicts were analyzed at the levels of individual typological characteristics, self-conception, and value orientation of personality. Research methodology. The study was based on the method of content analysis and psychodiagnostic tests. 100 respondents (50 respondents who have blogs and 50 respondents who do not have blogs) were examined with Sobczyk’s individual typological questionnaire, Stephenson’s Q sorting, Budassi’s scale of self-assessment, Leary’s interpersonal diagnosis of personality, Fantalova’s value / accessibility correlation in different life spheres. Mann-Whitney test and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient were applied for statistical data processing. Research results. The results of the survey support the hypothesis regarding the special character of the intra-personal conflicts of bloggers in comparison with those people who do not have blogs and use the Internet less often. In fact, conflicts between real self and virtual self are characteristic of bloggers. Most of the tension is the result of contradiction of ideas about their personal social and communicative competence and the opposition of coping strategies “acceptance of struggle – avoidance of struggle”. Conclusions. There are different views on how the Internet influences psychological wellbeing. Social networks allow bloggers to present themselves in a certain desired light, to create some image, to stress their unique features, to attract attention to those character properties which are not manifested in real life as desired.

scholarly journals HARNESSING RISKS PERCEPTION THEORY FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF BARRIERS TO E-GOVERNMENT

2019 ◽  
pp. 194-205
Author(s):  
Ani Munirah Mohamad ◽  
Anis Shuhaiza Md Salleh ◽  
Mohd Zakhiri Md Nor ◽  
Najah Inani Abdul Jalil
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Government Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Perception Theory ◽  
Government Websites ◽  
The Government

The term e-government means the employment of the Internet and the world-wide-web for delivering government information and services to the citizens. It refers to the use by government agencies of information technologies (such as Wide Area Networks, the Internet, and mobile computing) that have the ability to transform relations with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government. Nevertheless, the implementation of e-government has not been smooth-sailing. Managerial hiccups and barriers seem to hamper the proper implementation of e-government. Accordingly, the risks perception theory stands out as being appropriate to explain such barriers. This theoretical paper outlines the application of risks perception theory for the understanding of the barriers to the implementation of e-government in any particular jurisdiction. Factors such as leadership failures, financial inhibitors, and workplace and organizational inflexibility could potentially impede the full potential of the engagement of e-government services by the government, businesses and the citizens. Adopting library-based research method, and document analysis of secondary data from textbooks, government reports, government websites, journal articles and newspaper reports, this paper traces the development of e-government in selected jurisdictions in the world which adopt e-government in its delivery of information and services. Generally, this paper highlights the employment of risks perception theory in the understanding of the barriers to e-government initiatives. The paper aspires to contribute to the body of knowledge on the study of e-government services.

scholarly journals Embodied time and the out-of-body experience of the self

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e8565
Author(s):  
Sylvie Droit-Volet ◽  
Sophie Monceau ◽  
Michaël Dambrun ◽  
Natalia Martinelli
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Interval Duration ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Time Distortion ◽  
Body Self ◽  
The Individual

Using an out-of-body paradigm, the present study provided further empirical evidence for the theory of embodied time by suggesting that the body-self plays a key role in time judgments. Looking through virtual reality glasses, the participants saw the arm of a mannequin instead of their own arm. They had to judge the duration of the interval between two (perceived) touches applied to the mannequin’s body after a series of strokes had been viewed being made to the mannequin and tactile strokes had been administered to the participants themselves. These strokes were administered either synchronously or asynchronously. During the interval, a pleasant (touch with a soft paintbrush) or an unpleasant stimulation (touch with a pointed knife) was applied to the mannequin. The results showed that the participants felt the perceived tactile stimulations in their own bodies more strongly after the synchronous than the asynchronous stroking condition, a finding which is consistent with the out-of-body illusion. In addition, the interval duration was judged longer in the synchronous than in the asynchronous condition. This time distortion increased the greater the individual out-of-body experience was. Our results therefore highlight the importance of the awareness of the body-self in the processing of time, i.e., the significance of embodied time.

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