ABSTRACT
We understand the world today as mediated, technologized, globalized, and networked and, as a consequence, we tend to thinkof people in terms of avatars and virtual identities. In media studies, we’ve become focused on practices of texting, IM’ing, social networking, and tweeting; our scholarly sights are trained on the construction and performance of online identities, on virtual engagements, and on the infinite possibilities of cyberspace. Embodiment, it seems, is no longer of consequence.
