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We have seen, in previous chapters, that identity is increasingly being marked by fluidity and variability with traditional indicators of identity such as family and community being transformed. What are the implications for Giddens’s concept of self-identity and the project of the reflexive self if, as Castells (2000) claims, we have now entered a culture of ‘real virtuality’? Is networking in urban virtual space more comforting now that we can reinvent or conceal our ‘real’ selves? And is this really the way new technology is being used?
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Chambers, D. (2006). Virtual Intimacy and Online Sociality. In: New Social Ties. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627284_8
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