Cyber, Body, and Communication

The emerging phenomenon of virtual idols, a product of the technological era, has gradually become a new segment in the idol market. In the cyber world, the embodiment of virtual idols is primarily manifested in five aspects: world body, social body, political body, consumer body, and medical body. As a representative product of cyborgs, virtual idols connect their own bodies to the cyber world through scientific and technological means. Due to the unique composition of virtual idols, they project reality into the cyber world and construct the world body of virtual idols through interaction with fans. In the cyber world, fans and virtual idols communicate through the internet, creating an exclusive society for virtual idols and fans. During the process of social interaction, they continuously construct the social body of virtual idols. Simultaneously, based on the distinctive attributes of the virtual idol group A-SOUL, the political body of virtual idols is jointly constructed by the two-dimensional images in the cyber world and the avatars engaging in real-time interaction with fans. The continuous fusion of fans and virtual idols transforms both parties from mere producers and consumers, constructing the consumer body of virtual idols. As representatives of cyborgs, virtual idols reveal the diverse extensions of the body in the cyber world, providing new pathways for the construction of the medical body in the technological era. The construction of the body by virtual idols in cyberspace offers new pathways and insights for the construction of the body in the technological age.