{"id":1350,"date":"2018-12-04T20:15:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T01:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2018-12-04T20:15:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T01:15:25","slug":"body-tech-boundary-blurring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/12\/04\/body-tech-boundary-blurring\/","title":{"rendered":"Body\/Tech Boundary Blurring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sub-header of the recent <em>Pacific Standard<\/em> article <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/magazine\/the-boundary-between-our-bodies-and-our-tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Boundary Between Our Bodies and Our Tech<\/a> is &#8220;Our online identities have become a part of who we are in the real world\u2014whether we&#8217;re always aware of it or not.&#8221; The author asks readers to conduct a thought experiment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where do you end? Not your body, but you, the nebulous identity you think of as your &#8220;self.&#8221; Does it end at the limits of your physical form? Or does it include your voice, which can now be heard as far as outer space; your personal and behavioral data, which is spread out across the impossibly broad plane known as digital space; and your active online personas, which probably encompass dozens of different social media networks, text message conversations, and email exchanges?\u00a0This is a question with no clear answer, and, as the smartphone grows more and more essential to our daily lives, that border&#8217;s only getting blurrier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the article provides a compelling analysis of the blurred lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sub-header of the recent Pacific Standard article The Boundary Between Our Bodies and Our Tech is &#8220;Our online identities have become a part of who we are in the real world\u2014whether we&#8217;re always aware of it or not.&#8221; The author asks readers to conduct a thought experiment: Where do you end? Not your body, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[347,12],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-identity","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}