Identity Technologies
Constructing the Self Online
Published on 30. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-299-29644-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Identity Technologies explores the various ways that individuals construct their identities on the Internet, while also offering 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, this volume presents new case studies and fresh theoretical questions emphasising the methodological challenges inherent in scholarly attempts to account for and analyse the rise of identity technologies. The collection also includes an interview with Lauren Berlant on her use of blogs as research and writing tools.
Identity Technologies explores the various ways that individuals construct their identities on the Internet, while also offering 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, this volume presents new case studies and fresh theoretical questions emphasising the methodological challenges inherent in scholarly attempts to account for and analyse the rise of identity technologies. The collection also includes an interview with Lauren Berlant on her use of blogs as research and writing tools.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-29644-5 (9780299296445)
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Anna Poletti is a lecturer in literary studies at Monash University, Australia where she is codirector of the Centre for the Book. She is the author of Intimate Ephemera: Reading Young Lives in Australia Zine Culture.
Julie Rak is a professor of English and film studies at the University of Alberta in Canada. She is the author of Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for Popular Markets and Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse.
Julie Rak is a professor of English and film studies at the University of Alberta in Canada. She is the author of Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for Popular Markets and Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse.