"Liquid Life" is a term borrowed from the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. He used it to describe the kind of life experience by individuals in our age and place in time. In effect, as our lives become more fragmented, we are required to be more flexible, adaptable, and nimble. Sound familiar? We live in an age where the only thing that feels permanent is the state of transition. And in a state of constant transition and fluidity between ourselves, or lives, and the lives and culture around us, the kinds of relationships we have and develop have been (and are) transformed.
If Dr. Bauman's description of our culture at large is as the very least apropos, then it seems a fair attempt to use it as a description of what's occurring at the intersection of Culture and Internet Technology. There is a cause and effect at this intersection which can be observed, measured, and described. Liquid Life it is then - surfs up! (Yes, pun intended.)
"How then does internet technology contribute to or interrupt the capability of an individual to form relationships outside his or herself?"
"What kind of pressure and tension is created for the individual living a Liquid Life in the age of the Internet?"
"If established 'meaningful' relationships are no longer static but instead dynamic (fluid), what kind of fragmentation, isolation, and even subjective imprisonment might result?"
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