My academic research and the courses I taught at NYU focused on identity and how we construct and perform it. Specifically, the relativity of it: The ways in which we manipulate our self-presentation affect how we’re perceived and inform our subsequent claim to power in social contexts. This manipulation happens in both real-world and virtual spaces, though the degree to which we can stretch those manipulations extends even further in virtual worlds. In other words, changing your “appearance” can change your reality.
