Click, Validate, and Reply: Three Paradoxes of the Terminal Self

Authors

Simon Gottschalk, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Book Section

Publication Date

5-27-2021

Publication Title

The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism

Publisher

Routledge

Edition

1

First page number:

99

Last page number:

111

Abstract

To participate in contemporary society, we increasingly need to interact with digital technologies. To do so efficiently, we need to adjust our sensorimotor skills and perceptual aptitudes, our need for social recognition, and our emotional orientations, among others, to the digital logic. These adjustments in turn present us with several paradoxes that we need to resolve. These adjustments and decisions prompt the development of a terminal self.

Keywords

Contemporary society; Digital technologies; Sensorimotor skills; Interactionism; Terminals

Disciplines

Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Psychology and Interaction | Sociology

Language

English

Repository Citation

Gottschalk, S. (2021). Click, Validate, and Reply: Three Paradoxes of the Terminal Self. The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism 99-111. Routledge.