IDENTITY IN A VIRTUAL WORLD
Text topic: Philosophy of Media
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Text author: Саша Радојчић
Personal identity is a concept that can be determined through the consciousness of the experience continuity in the dimension of time. Personal identity is not substantial, but formal relation that articulates its contents in different ways, which are socially conditioned (gender, professional, national etc. identity). Similarly, collective identity is established as consciousness of the shared experiences and traditions. The basic thesis of this article is that the personal and collective identity in a virtual world set up in the same way as in “real” world, as well as that the identity in a virtual world is less stable than the identity in “real” world.
