Since the onset of cyberculture studies, researchers have sought to understand how postmodern concepts of identity emerge online, often through discussions of (dis)embodiment. Much of the early work focused on the utopian visions of what could be, eschewing the social reality of digital experience for the myth of a virtual life free from the constraints of bodies and materiality….

And so starts my book review of Jenny Sundén’ Material Virtualities (2003).