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6 Digitalization and Social Identity Formation

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Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age

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Contemporary debates on digitalization and digital communication highlight the fusion of online communication and “offline” interaction into one life world coined “onlife” by Floridi (2015, p. 94). Not too long ago, the “virtual” world represented a place where one could experimentally construct alternative and “free” forms of selfpresentation and identity apart from the so-called everyday life in the “real” world of bodies, buildings and “real” social relations. Both the phrases “world wide web” and “Web 2.0” originally signified a free space to which the rules of the “iron cage” (Max Weber) of power politics, capitalist economy, law and science did not seem to apply.

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Klemm, M. (2018). 6 Digitalization and Social Identity Formation. In: Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90230-2_13

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