Virtual Worlds and Identity Exploration for Marginalised People

摘要: The recent rise in the use of virtual worlds as alternative spaces for social gatherings has increased people’s access to identity role-play and redevelopment options. By being able explore repressed facets their identities safe harbours such Second LifeTM, marginalised people may be benefit from positive experiences that can transferable physical world lives. Social construction approaches broaden build theory emotions are used support claim people, using interactions, reformulate how they perceive perceived by others, leading psychological effects. Online behaviours, deindividuation disinhibition, coupled with anonymity, replace missing sensory informational cues environments. evaluation aid explaining relate each other these effects on development.