Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online

by Anna Poletti (Editor), Julie Rak (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299296438
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	01/31/2014
Series:	Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	544 KB

About the Author

Anna Poletti is a lecturer in literary studies at Monash University, 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments                    Introduction: Digital Dialogues: Auto/biography, New Media, Identity             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 and Julia Watson                        Identity Affordances Adultery Technologies             Melissa Gregg                         Facebook and Coaxed Affordances             Aimee Morrison                     Archiving Disaster and National Identity in the Digital Realm: The September 11 Digital Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank             Courtney Rivard                     Life Bytes: Six-word Memoir and the Exigencies of Auto/tweetographies             Laurie McNeill                          Mediated Communities Negotiating Identities/Queering Desires: Coming Out Online and the Remediation of the Coming Out Story             Mary L. Gray             Biomediations of Illness: Web 2.0 and the Female Complaint             Olivia Banner                          Cyber-self: In Search of a Lost Identity?             Alessandra Micalizzi                          Homeless Nation: Producing Legal Subjectivities through New Media             Suzanne Bouclin                       Reflections Autobiography and New Communication Tools             Philippe Lejeune, translated by Katherine Durnin                 The Blog as Experimental Setting: An Interview with Lauren Berlant             Anna Poletti and Julie Rak                   Contributors                           Index