The contributors show that questions of selfpresentation and representation in digital culture are the focus of lively debate, critique, and investigation and that this is taking place from a number of theoretical perspectives and locations across the globe. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. Situated in debates about postfeminism, selfrepresentation and digital identity, this book connects understandings of digital visual culture to gender, race. Postfeminist digital cultures femininity, social media, and. Exploring disabled girls selfrepresentational practices. Summary taking a close look at ordinary people telling their own story, nancy thumim explores self representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality tv, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums. Self representation and digital culture addresses the institutional contexts of production, technology and form of the texts, and the point of view of those who represent themselves. It is suggested that this microlevel spectacle instantiates in the myriad shapes online selfrepresentation assumes today and, if the rapid adoption of selffacing technologies is any indication, is likely to continue unabated. In consideration of these selfrepresentation, this study further proposes a new. I attempt to move away from discourses of risk that circulate around girls digital selfrepresentation practices by demonstrating how these practices provide disabled girls with visibility in a postfeminist mediascape that renders them invisible, and also act as a form of social advocacy and awareness raising. University of bergen library contact us send feedback. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. Input from comments, understanding the other, preparing for a performing self and taking actions.
Exploring disabled girls selfrepresentational practices online. Influences on the formation of identity and understanding of self through social networking sites. Hoersting, raquel carvalho, the effects of priming, culture, and context on perception of facial emotion, self representation and thought. Childrens representation of self in social media communities. Some features of this site may not work without it. Masks are arrested expressions and admirable echoes of feeling, at once faithful, discreet, and superlative. Digital technology is becoming increasingly intertwined with everyday life. This item appears in the following collections digital culture 72. Selfrepresentation and digital culture participations. With the ever more userfriendly web, the opportunities to use available channels of online communication complicate ways in which individuals oscillate between exhibition and inhibition, selfexposure and selfpreservation.
The lack of contemporary representation of native americans in the media limits the ways in which native americans understand what is possible for themselves and how they see themselves fitting in to contemporary domains e. New search self representation and digital culture. Senators own elites are more liberal in moralistic cultures. This book addresses the phenomenal proliferation of selfrepresentation by socalled ordinary people in contemporary digital culture, offering the reader a way of making sense of diverse examples of what i ultimately suggest should now be understood as a genre in its own right. Crucially, dobson refuses to generalize about digital practices and instead reveals the complexities of gendered selfrepresentation in digital culture, calling on us to carefully and constructively analyze dynamics of power rather than make quick moral judgments about girls and young womens media use. Youth culture, selfrepresentation and digital identity slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. Individualist and collectivist cultural approaches describe the relationship between an. Since 2008, software studies initiative a research lab led by manovich used computational and data visualization methods to analyze large numbers of instagram photos. Influences on the formation of identity and understanding of self through social networking sites madison ganda portland state university let us know how access to this document benefits you. Selfrepresentation online selfrepresentation, digital culture and genre. Digital culture is a blanket concept that describes the idea that technology and the internet significantly shape the way we interact, behave, think, and communicate as human beings in a societal setting. Nancy thumim, self representation and digital culture, new york.
Manovich and tifentale discuss the construction of popular photographic selfrepresentation in digital visual culture. Nancy thumin, self representation and digital culture, palgrave macmillan. Summary taking a close look at ordinary people telling their own story, nancy thumim explores selfrepresentations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality tv, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums. Selfrepresentation and digital culture springerlink. Situated in debates about postfeminism, self representation and digital identity, this book connects understandings of digital visual culture to gender, race, and class, and neoliberal imperatives. Digital culture is a blanket concept that describes the idea that technology and the internet significantly shape the way we interact, behave, think, and communicate as human beings in a. The industrial period created a burgeoning middle class that had greater standards of mate. Selfrepresentation and digital culture researchgate. Pdf download for nancy thumin, selfrepresentation open epub for. Nancy thumim, selfrepresentation and digital culture, new york.
One of the concomitants of our current digital culture is the sense of rapid change. This book shows that questions about the representation of the self in digital culture are now key to how the field of media and communication must engage with the political. Selfrepresentation and digital culture addresses the institutional contexts of production, technology and form of the texts, and the point of view of those who represent themselves. This book addresses the phenomenal proliferation of self representation by socalled ordinary people in contemporary digital culture, offering the reader a way of making sense of diverse examples of what i ultimately suggest should now be understood as a genre in its own right. It is the product of pervasive technology and limitless access to. From camera obscura self portrait to the digital selfie. Apr 17, 2017 abstractin this article, i combine theorizations of the selfie as an aesthetic and technological practice of digital self representation with a theatrical conception of spectatorship, inspired by adam smith, in order to argue that the selfie has the potential to operate as a significant ethicopolitical spectacle in the spaces of western publicity. Selfrepresentation and selfexposure through online networks. Miller, vincent, understanding digital culture1 oscar diamante incent miller begins with the notion of technological enablement by clarifying the issue between technological determinism and social determination of technology.
It is especially concerned with social media practices that have largely been framed as. Change appears to be a given of existence, whether it is manifested. This special issue shows that questions of selfpresentation and representation in digital culture are the focus of lively. I am interested in the continuity of contemporary selfie culture with the tradition of selfportraiture in art. Self representation is the image the subject has of him or herself based on his or her own interpretation. Recent digital games originating in the middle east can be perceived as examples of an ongoing digital emancipation taking place through the distribution of media images and their. Self and identity theories assume that people care about themselves. Crucially, dobson refuses to generalize about digital practices and instead reveals the complexities of gendered self representation in digital culture, calling on us to carefully and constructively analyze dynamics of power rather than make quick moral judgments about girls and young womens media use. Art, resistance, and selfrepresentation, examines the ways osage citizensand particularly artistsengage with mainstream audiences in museums and other spaces in order to negotiate, manipulate, subvert, and sometimes sustain static notions of. The second part of the paper deals with selected digital games created in the middle east, whose authors are knowingly working with the topic of self representation. Nancy thumim self representation and digital culture palgrave macmillan 2012. Nancy thumim, selfrepresentation and digital culture, houndmills. Postfeminist digital cultures provides a detailed and theoretically informed account of girls and young womens social media practices and selfrepresentations.
Self and identity researchers have long believed that the self is both a product of situations and a shaper of behavior in situations. Pdf self representation and digital culture download. But as we change our selfrepresentations, do our selfrepresentations change our behavior in turn. All books are in clear copy here, and all files are secure so dont worry about it. From camera obscura selfportrait to the digital selfie history of selfpresentation. Hoersting, raquel carvalho, the effects of priming, culture, and context on perception of facial emotion, selfrepresentation and thought. Teens, gender, and selfpresentation in social media susan c. Nancy thumin, selfrepresentation and digital culture. It is suggested that this microlevel spectacle instantiates in the myriad shapes online self representation assumes today and, if the rapid adoption of self facing technologies is any indication, is likely to continue unabated. Download full pdf visit the sidestone elibrary to browse our ebooks.
Selfrepresentation and digital culture search results. Selfrepresentation in contemporary visual culture author. Pdf self representation and digital culture download full. Taking a close look at ordinary people telling their own story, nancy thumim explores selfrepresentations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality tv, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums. The results display significant aspects of childrens learning trajectories in self representation, presented as. This dissertation presents a previously unedited text by one of the most distinguished yet neglectedlatin writers of the italian renaissance, ercole strozzi 14711508, a poet and administrator in the court of ferrara. This book was originally published as a special issue of popular communication. Nancy thumim, selfrepresentation and digital culture jacobson. In consideration of these selfrepresentation, this study further proposes a new theorization with which to frame these findings. Youth culture, selfrepresentation and digital identity. It is one of the factors of the ego and its representation as termed an individual, differentiated, real, and permanent entity racamier particularized by a distinctive history and modes of feeling, thinking, and doing. Nancy thumim self representation and digital culture. Dec 30, 2015 digital storytelling, imagemaking and selfrepresentation. Digital storytelling, imagemaking and selfrepresentation.
The pdf file you selected should load here if your web browser has a pdf reader plugin installed. Developments in digital technology, and the speed at which they emerge, drive innovation. Nancy thumin, selfrepresentation and digital culture, 20. Building digital literacy as an ethical response for supporting aboriginal young peoples digital identities article sidebar requires subscription pdf chf 90. Crucially, dobson refuses to generalize about digital practices and instead reveals the complexities of gendered selfrepresentation in digital culture, calling on. The paper will explore the concept of digital friendship, and discuss the arena. The remediation of the personal photograph and the. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. Please click button to get self representation and digital culture book now. View the article pdf and any associated supplements and figures for a period of 48 hours. Oct 20, 2015 the preface above describes the typical morning of someone living in a culture in which people are surrounded and consumed by technology a digital culture.
Out of these acts of participation, three different participatory identities were constructed. The latin literary output of the court, however, has. To some extent our culture is becoming so thoroughly digital that the term digital culture risks becoming tautological. Teens, gender, and selfpresentation in social media. In this chapter, i will discuss three modes of self representation in social media. Reviewed by jenna jacobson university of toronto the concepts of self representation and digital culture can no longer be thought of as separate entities, but as perpetually linked in complex, complicated, and changing ways. Self representation online self representation, digital culture and genre.
This is a digital offprint from goethe university frankfurt. The second part of the paper deals with selected digital games created in the middle east, whose authors are knowingly working with the topic of selfrepresentation. Selfrepresentation and digital culture by thumim, nancy. Nancy thumin, selfrepresentation and digital culture, palgrave macmillan. The contributors show that questions of self presentation and representation in digital culture are the focus of lively debate, critique, and investigation and that this is taking place from a number of theoretical perspectives and locations across the globe. Being interested in material culture as well i discovered that there were few arts and crafts on offer for tourists, especially in comparison to other places and. The remediation of the personal photograph and the politics.
Herring indiana university, bloomington sanja kapidzic ludwigmaximiliansuniversitat abstract this chapter is concerned with how teenage boys and girls present themselves through online social media such as facebook, twitter, blogs, and chat forums. The construction and representation of identity in contemporary digital culture. Under the este dukes, ferrara became a major center of literary and artistic patronage. Nancy thumim self representation and digital culture palgrave macmillan 2012 topics nancy thumim self representation and digital culture palgrave macmillan 2012 collection opensource language. This highly original research examines how contradictory and widely different politics inform and shape examples of speaking for oneself.
New black portraitures examines how these structural violences emerge, while at the same time considering how the digital might give rise to a more atomized understanding of the self and to more opportunities for the exploitation of structures of distribution and accumulation. Nancy thumim explores selfrepresentations in contemporary digital culture in. Representation and culture 121 simple partisanship, induced partisanship, and the two opposition party measures, moralistic cultures are more centrist than individualistic states. Everything is of course always changing all the time. The dominant discourses overwhelmingly present most. Making sense of oneselfwho one is, was, and may become, and therefore the path one should take in the worldis a core selfproject. In 2 experimental studies, we explore the hypothesis that an individuals behavior conforms to their digital selfrepresentation independent of how others perceive thema process we term the proteus effect. Abstractin this article, i combine theorizations of the selfie as an aesthetic and technological practice of digital selfrepresentation with a theatrical conception of spectatorship, inspired by adam smith, in order to argue that the selfie has the potential to operate as a significant ethicopolitical spectacle in the spaces of western publicity.
The paradox of sexual selfrepresentation in digital youth cultures. Feb 20, 2009 youth culture, selfrepresentation and digital identity slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. Technological determinism asserts that the society and culture are transformed by the new technology. Self representation in contemporary visual culture. This book addresses the phenomenal proliferation of selfrepresentation by socalled ordinary people in contemporary digital culture, offering the reader a way of making sense of diverse examples of what i ultimately suggest should. Taking a close look at ordinary people telling their own story, nancy thumim explores self representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality tv, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums. The structure of self representation and digital culture is clearly established, as the book is the product of thumims doctoral dissertation completed in 2007 at the london school of economics. Selfrepresentation and digital culture nancy thumim. Postfeminist digital cultures femininity, social media. In this chapter, i will discuss three modes of selfrepresentation in social media. Nancy thumim self representation and digital culture palgrave.
Manovich and tifentale discuss the construction of popular photographic self representation in digital visual culture. Online selfrepresentation and digital culture by nancy thumim ebook pdf. Self and identity usc dana and david dornsife college of. Now available in paperback, selfrepresentation and digital culture addresses.
Gender studies, digital culture, femininity, girl culture, girl studies, postfeminism, social media, social network sites. Nancy thumim, selfrepresentation and digital culture. Self representation and digital culture download ebook. The combination of exploring socializing and selfrepresentation allows.