Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self

Informationen zum Autor Rob Cover is Head of the Media and Communication Discipline and Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia. He researches and publishes on issues of media and identity, including digital media theory, queer theory, youth sexuality and representation, cultural concepts of population and migration, as well as sports, masculinities and media scandal. He has published over fifty journal articles and book chapters since 2000, and his most recent books are Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? (Ashgate, 2012) and Vulnerability and Exposure: Footballer Scandals, Masculine Identity and Ethics (UWAP Scholarly, 2015). Klappentext Online Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self presents a critical investigation of the ways in which representations of identities have shifted since the advent of digital communications technologies. Critical studies over the past century have pointed to the multifaceted nature of identity! with a number of different theories and approaches used to explain how everyday people have a sense of themselves! their behaviors! desires! and representations. . In the era of interactive! digital! and networked media and communication! identity can be understood as even more complex! with digital users arguably playing a more extensive role in fashioning their own self-representations online! as well as making use of the capacity to co-create common and group narratives of identity through interactivity and the proliferation of audio-visual user-generated content online.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Understanding Identity-Theories and Approaches
Chapter 2: Identity, Behavior, and Performativity
Chapter 3: Identity and Digital Medical-From Virtual Realities to Virtual Identities
Chapter 4: Digital Media and Corporeality
Chapter 5: Identity and Social Networking
Chapter 6: Mobile Information, Mobilities, and Networked Subjectivity
Chapter 7: Identity and the Digital Divide
Chapter 8: Identity, Internet, and Globalization
Chapter 9: Digital Identity and Surveillance
Chapter 10: Identity, Digital Communication, and Community
Chapter 11: Beyond Identity and Normativity

Product details

• Authors: Rob Cover, Rob (Discipline Chair Cover, Robert Cover, Robert M Cover, Robert M. Cover, Cover Rob
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9780124200838
• ISBN: 978-0-12-420083-8
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Social, group or collective psychology, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies