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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 3.945)

 VOLUME 12, ISSUE - 01 ( JAN - FEB 2026 )

THEERTHA SATHIAN & Dr. SARASWATHY K.

ABSTRACT

The digital age has rewritten the grammar of human experience, reformulating identity, relationships, emotional life, and social contact. In as much as digital technologies promise connectivity, efficiency, and empowerment, they also reproduce fragmentation, alienation, and emotional exhaustion. Drawing upon theories of digital modernity, identity formation, and affect studies, this paper critically examines how digital ecology reconfigures human experience in contemporary society. The paper discusses the impact of virtual spaces on selfhood and emotional life, the quality of face-to-face interpersonal relationships, and puts forward the argument that digital culture creates a fragmented and performative self. By foregrounding issues of digital isolation, emotional management, and mediated identity, the paper foregrounds the paradoxes of connectivity in the digital age and calls for a critical revision of human experience in conditions of technological saturation.

Keywords: Digital Age, Human Experience, Identity, Virtual Space, Emotional Life, Digital Modernity