I wonder if it would be worth going further back, actually, well prior to the internet, to look at adaptation. One stop on the way would be Turkle’s Second Self, of course. I haven’t gotten around to reading Hutcheon’s book. But I’d be curious: Does (or how well does) Hutcheon tie adaptation across platforms to adaptation to technologies and media historically?

One work from the humanities side that I’ve found useful is Hutcheon’s _A Theory of Adaptation_: while about transmedia storytelling, it’s a useful framework for thinking about adapting other things across platforms: body image, power, dating, etc, and how so many of our practices are, fluidly or haltingly, adaptations across media, from game spaces to IM to Facebook to Twitter and back, and what’s gained/lost/translated along the way.