{"product_id":"9781643151038","title":"Human* Being : On Otherkin Identity and Digital Community - Devin Proctor","description":"\u003cp\u003eHuman* Being: On Otherkin Identity and Digital Community is an ethnographic exploration of the Otherkin-a technologically-mediated community of practice whose members identify as other-than-human-breaking down barriers of identity and calling into question assumptions about what it means to be a human. Based on a decade of ethnographic research, Human* Being examines Otherkin engagement with the techno-virtuality afforded by the internet-through chat forums, personal blogs, 3D virtual worlds, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Discord, TikTok, and Reddit-troubling conventional notions about our relationships with the virtual and our understandings of the Self. The Otherkin represent a larger shift in body identity, shown by increasing numbers of people identifying as trans, nonbinary, fluid, and neurodiverse; bodies open to nuance, complication, and multiplicity. Devin Proctor closely examines internal community debates about the limits of non-human identity, avatar creation practices in virtual worlds to approximate inner realities, and the policing of identity constructs toward a stable definition of the phenomenon. However anomalistic, even fantastical they may seem, the Otherkin offer a window into our own complex notions of bodies, Selves, and technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Devin Proctor","offers":[{"title":"258 pages, 0 images \/ 11\/08\/2026 \/ Media studies","offer_id":57300689748343,"sku":"9781643151038","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781643151038","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}