Technoself studies

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Technoself studies, commonly referred to as TSS, is an emerging, interdisciplinary domain of scholarly research dealing with human identity in a technological society^[1] focusing on the changing nature of relationships between the human and technology. The self is a key concept of TSS. The term "technoself", advanced by Rocci Luppicini (2013) aims to avoid ideological or philosophical biases inherent in other related terms including cyborg, posthuman, transhuman, techno-human,^[2] beman (also known as bio-electric human), digital identity, avatar, and homotechnicus- though Luppicini acknowledges that these categories "capture important aspects of human identity".^[3] Technoself is further elaborated and explored in Luppicini's "Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Environment".