Saved by Jack Sun
Identity play.
The problem is, we no longer live solely among those we know well. We're now forced to refine our personalities by the countless eyes of strangers. And this has begun to affect the process by which we develop our identities.
Gurwinder • The Perils of Audience Capture
The existential question of the ‘true self’ becomes more complex amidst these varying online personas.
Khalil Liouane • The Illusion of Self in the Digital Age: Unraveling Our Multiple Identities
To play an alternate reality game is to be drawn into a collaborative project of explaining the world. It is to lose, even fleetingly, one’s commitment to what is most true in the service of what is most compelling, what most advances a narrative one deeply believes.