Die volgende aanhaling van Slater (2002: 536), hoewel lywig, som vier aspekte van kuber-emanspiasie goed op:
“First, one can perform whatever identity one chooses (I can be a man, a woman or an extraterrestrial toad); second, one can create entirely new identities that are impossible or inconceivable in offline worlds constrained by social and bodily physics (famously, I can be one of seven different sexes on Lambda-MOO); third, because all presences online are textual they are also self-evidently performances, and therefore…
[haal eers asem]
…one can be liberated from the concept of authenticity itself, and enter a different ethics and politics, that of performance; and, finally, this ethics and politics, in its most prevalent version, is carried out by ‘cyborg’ or ‘hybrid’ identites; they are defined not by a fixed and monadic individualization but rather by fluidity and interconnection. Cyberspace appeared as the site of a sociology of the future, in which identities are mobile, fluid and openly experienced as performative rather than authentic.“
(Slater, D. 2002. Social Relationships and Identity Online and Offline. Handbook of New Media 533-46.)
Is jy werklik jouself wanneer jy aanlyn is? Kan 'n mens ooit jou identiteit in die regte lewe met jou kuber-identiteit versoen?