KJCKorea
Journal Central

The emergence of the popular internet social networking portals such as Facebook, and Tweeter, enables real time interaction among the users via texting. And, the recent coming of the film <Avatar> had prompted renewed attention and interest to the concept of avatar. Together, these call for the need to realign our perception of avatar and the virtual environment. The common expectation that the public had for second life’ with the usage of avatars is not heading in the direction that we had originally intended for. therefore, there needs to be a statement that can justify the need for re-establishment of the core concept of avatar. In this digital age, people feel content to stand behind the virtual mask or avatar that digital technology provides. Therefore, often they are visited by anxious, uneasy, alienated feeling when they question about the meaning of their real-life existence. The more profoundly they bore themselves, the more powerfully do they serve to divert these people who bore themselves. So, those who design avatar should underatand those others who bore to entertain others. The presence of anxiety and uneasiness reveals and veils the nature of human and freedom. In conclusion, the purpose of this research is to re-define and expand the concept of avatar through understanding of existence in Kierkegaard.

Avatar, Anxiety, Freedom’s possibility