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A framework describing how individuals can experience a split between their online and offline selves—not as a disorder but as a common coping mechanism in a hyperconnected world. Digital dissociation allows people to compartmentalize identities, emotions, and behaviors across different platforms, servers, or accounts. It can be protective (separating work life from fandom) or pathological (losing track of which self is “real”). The theory explores how the fragmented architecture of digital life encourages fractured identity, and how constant context‑switching can lead to a sense of being decentered or untethered.
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