Abstract
This paper presents some remarks on identity formation and the relationship this bears to transformative possibilities in on-line communities. The inability to 'read off' identity - as in embodied university classrooms - offers the promise of non-racialised/gendered/sexualised constructions of the 'Other' and therefore the presuppositions that such constructions carry with them. This presumed comp/utopia (idea of perfection) is attractive to many who work in culturally diverse environments where tensions often surface around changing local demographics (Reid, 2000). However, this paper argues - citing student focus group discussions and threads from on-line discussions - that a lack of knowledge about the ‘Other’ produces anxiet(y)ies. But rather than being unproductive, the anxiet(y)ies produced by ‘facelessness’ may have transformative potential.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | ultiBASE in-site |
Publication status | Published - 2002 |
Keywords
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