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Fame and the Internet
Source D. Ohmans
Date 07/01/26/10:40

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THE VIRTUAL PERSONA we project online is a carefully edited version of ourselves, as "authentic" as a character on reality TV. People on reality TV "are ultra-self-aware versions of the ordinary, über-facsimiles of themselves in the same way that online personals are recreations of self constantly tweaked for maximum response and effect," writes Niedzviecki in his book.

--Lakshmi Chaudhry

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