Identity technologies : constructing the self online / edited by Anna Poletti and Julie Rak.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wisconsin studies in autobiographyPublisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]Copyright date: Description: viii, 286 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780299296445
  • 029929644X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.3 23
LOC classification:
  • CT25 .I34 2014
Contents:
Introduction: Digital dialogues / Anna Poletti and Julie Rak -- Foundations. Beyond anonymity, or future directions for internet identity research / Helen Kennedy -- Cyberrace / Lisa Nakamura -- Becoming and belonging: performativity, subjectivity, and the cultural purposes of social networking / Rob Cover -- Virtually me: a toolbox about online self-presentation / Sidonie Smith an
Summary: Identity Technologies is a substantial contribution to the fields of autobiography studies, digital studies, and new media studies, exploring the many new modes of self-expression and self-fashioning that have arisen in conjunction with Web 2.0, social networking, and the increasing saturation of wireless communication devices in everyday life. This volume explores the various ways that individuals construct their identities on the Internet and offers historical perspectives on ways that technologies intersect with identity creation. Bringing together scholarship about the construction of the self by new and established authors from the fields of digital media and auto/biography studies, Identity Technologies presents new case studies and fresh theoretical questions emphasizing the methodological challenges inherent in scholarly attempts to account for and analyze the rise of identity technologies. The collection also includes an interview with Lauren Berlant on her use of blogs as research and writing tools.--Amazon.com.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Digital dialogues / Anna Poletti and Julie Rak -- Foundations. Beyond anonymity, or future directions for internet identity research / Helen Kennedy -- Cyberrace / Lisa Nakamura -- Becoming and belonging: performativity, subjectivity, and the cultural purposes of social networking / Rob Cover -- Virtually me: a toolbox about online self-presentation / Sidonie Smith an

Identity Technologies is a substantial contribution to the fields of autobiography studies, digital studies, and new media studies, exploring the many new modes of self-expression and self-fashioning that have arisen in conjunction with Web 2.0, social networking, and the increasing saturation of wireless communication devices in everyday life. This volume explores the various ways that individuals construct their identities on the Internet and offers historical perspectives on ways that technologies intersect with identity creation. Bringing together scholarship about the construction of the self by new and established authors from the fields of digital media and auto/biography studies, Identity Technologies presents new case studies and fresh theoretical questions emphasizing the methodological challenges inherent in scholarly attempts to account for and analyze the rise of identity technologies. The collection also includes an interview with Lauren Berlant on her use of blogs as research and writing tools.--Amazon.com.

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