In this Book
- Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
- Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-2
- Introduction: Digital Dialogues
- pp. 3-22
- Foundations
- Identity Affordances
- Adultery Technologies
- pp. 99-111
- Facebook and Coaxed Affordances
- pp. 112-131
- Mediated Communities
- Cyber-Self: In Search of a Lost Identity?
- pp. 217-228
- Reflections
- Autobiography and New Communication Tools
- pp. 247-258
- Contributors
- pp. 273-278
- Series Page
- pp. 287-292
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299296438
Related ISBN(s)
9780299296445
MARC Record
OCLC
867050457
Pages
300
Launched on MUSE
2014-04-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013