Screen LibraryDigital identities : creating and communicating the online self /
Online Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self presents a critical investigation of the ways in which representations of identities have shifted since the advent of digital communications technologies. Critical studies over the past century have pointed to the multifaceted nature of i...
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Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | London, England : |
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[2015] ©2016 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780124200838 |
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Online Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self presents a critical investigation of the ways in which representations of identities have shifted since the advent of digital communications technologies. Critical studies over the past century have pointed to the multifaceted nature of identity, with a number of different theories and approaches used to explain how everyday people have a sense of themselves, their behaviors, desires, and representations. In the era of interactive, digital, and networked media and communication, identity can be understood as even more complex, with digital users arguably playing a more extensive role in fashioning their own self-representations online, as well as making use of the capacity to co-create common and group narratives of identity through interactivity and the proliferation of audio-visual user-generated content online. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780128004272 0128004274 |
| Index Number: | HM851 |
| CLC: | C912.3 |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ubiquitous digital networks, identity, and the self; 1 -- Ubiquitous digitality: beyond the real/virtual distinction; 2 -- Identity and performativity; 3 -- Selfies: interpellation and spectacle in a productive world; 4 -- About digital identities; Chapter 1 -- Understanding Identity Online: Social Networking; 1 -- Approaching Identity; 2 -- Web 1.0 and Online Fluidity; 3 -- Profiles and Performativity; 4 -- Identity, Friendship, and the Network; 5 -- Identity, Multiplicities, and Undoing; 5.1 -- Commentaries 5.2 -- Disrupting the Past -- the Archive5.3 -- Tagging; Chapter 2 -- Performativity, Communication, and Selfhood; 1 -- Identity in a media-saturated contemporary world; 1.1 -- Media Effects, Imitation, and Identification; 1.2 -- Psychoanalysis, Screen Theory, and the Gaze; 1.3 -- Encoding/Decoding; 1.4 -- Active Production, Postmodern Approaches; 1.5 -- Consumption: Neoliberal Positioning of Audiencehood; 2 -- Accessing identity information: available and unavailable discourses; 2.1 -- Agenda Setting; 2.2 -- Search Engines: Availability, Accessibility, and Popularity 2.3 -- Available and Unavailable Discourses3 -- Mediating the self in a circular world -- citationality and reading formations; 4 -- Conclusions: media, normativity, and pedagogy; Chapter 3 -- Interactivity, Digital Media, and the Text; 1 -- Digital media environments and identity today; 2 -- The Nature of Interactivity; 3 -- Interactivity and the author-text-audience relationship -- synergy and struggle; 4 -- Push and pull: audience interactivity in history; 5 -- Reality TV, mixed mediums, and open/closed textualities; 6 -- Digital rights management and flashes: digital wars and interactive struggles 7 -- Interactive identityChapter 4 -- Bodies, Identity, and Digital Corporeality; 1 -- Defining the body; 1.1 -- Identities without Bodies? Cyborgs?; 2 -- Representing corporeality on-screen; 2.1 -- Representing Stereotypes: Image, Movement, and Categories of Discrimination; 2.2 -- Real and Virtual: Digital Avatars and Gaming Bodies; 3 -- Body-technology relationalities; 3.1 -- Touch-Friendly and Wearable Technologies; 3.2 -- The Concept of the Seam; 3.3 -- Bodily Practices and Technologies; 4 -- Body information: the body as a project; Chapter 5 -- Identity, Internet, and Globalization; 1 -- Introduction 2 -- The concept of globalization2.1 -- Beyond Local/Global Distinctions; 2.2 -- Global Identities; 3 -- Global discursivity; 3.1 -- Visuality and Discomfort; 3.2 -- Global Exposure, Attitude, and Ethics; 4 -- Global time, fluctuating space; 4.1 -- Global Information Availabilities -- Refiguring Time; 4.2 -- TV Time, Scheduling, and Agency of Choice; 4.3 -- TV, Global Time, Speed, and Identity; 4.4 -- The Reassertion of the (Non)Global Place; 5 -- Global communication, ethics, and the importance of sound and listening; Chapter 6 -- Mobile Telephony, Mobility, and Networked Subjectivity; 1 -- Introduction 2 -- Mobile devices, accessibility, and ubiquitous connectivity |