for my cyborg anthropology class,
i am writing a paper on virtual pets and
exploring how children's engagement with them construct new possibilities for morality, intelligence and intimacy in an increasingly digitized consumer world. i'll look at the process of how young children develop cognitively, socially
and emotionally and make sense of reality
as they interact with and nurture "techno-intimacy"
with creatures that transgress the fluid
boundary between technology and biology.
(with an emphasis on the agency exercised by virtual pets).

"i don't play with it, i take care of it"

-a preschool girl in finland,
referring to her Tamagotchi.