explore how the perception of the risk of identity fraud online is entwined with the notion that the Internet involves a disembodied form of communication (…) we need to distinguish actual cyberharm from the pervasive discourse of fear that easily engulfs anything Internet-related, especially when considering that the characterization of the Internet as inherently disembodied may no longer be valid.
– “How material are cyberbodies? Broadband Internet and embodied subjectivity: pg 313 Lieve Gies
Posted on Friday November 20th
