Identity change thus is ubiquitous in ICT,
but in normal circumstances the change is
small and slow. Insofar as identity verifica-
tion occurs and people successfully bring
meanings in the situation into agreement
with the meanings in their identity standards,
the standards are subject to little systematic
pressure to change in any particular direc-
tion. Slow fluctuations may occur around a
central value, but these should be small. The
conditions for dramatic identity change are
manifested only in unusual circumstances
such as religious cults or the prisoner of war
camps in the Korean conflict (Schein 1958).
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Smaller changes that accumulate over time
are more common.