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List of contents
Introduction: This is an Invitation. Section I. Digitizing Identity Section I Preface 1. Offline as Misaligned: Millennials Coping with the Loss of Digital Presence 2. Digital Ink: Social Media and Tattoo Culture in Consideration of Gender 3. Powering Down: Theoretical Lenses to Examine the Agency of Our Smartphones 4. From Backstage to Digital Front Stage: Online Queer Community, Identity, and Emotion Management 5. Digital Dependency Interrupted: Profiles of Withdrawal for Self-Described Internet Addicts SECTION II. MEDIATED RELATIONSHIPS Section II Preface 6. How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Text the Ways: Interfacing Intimacy 7. La Familia in Digital Space and Face-to-Face: Millennial Latinx Navigating, and Reconfiguring Conceptions of Familismo 8. Is Unmediated More? When Physical Presence Does Not Equate to Digital Presence 9. Interfacing Conflict: Advice Columns and Digital Life SECTION I11. VIRTUAL AGENCY AND DIGITAL DYSTOPIA Section III Preface 10. Islands in the Stream: How Digital Music Piracy Became a Normal Activity 11. Community or Catharsis? Online Activism, Digital Community, and Social Agency 12. Power and Money, Explaining the Rise of Digital Media through Surveillance Capitalism 13. Knowing You Better than You Know Yourself: Manufacturing Perceptions SECTION IV. CAPPING IT OFF Section IV Preface 14. Why We Care: Netizenship and Informed Choice 15. Annotated Methodology: Investigative Process and Research Reflections INDEX
About the author
Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), where she was named "Woman of Distinction." She teaches popular culture, social psychology, and research methods, while serving as MA Program Director, Associate Chair, and Webmaster. Her background includes a Harvard PhD, educational program evaluation, government contract research, and business consultation. Her book, Hate Crime, won a Rising Star award.
Summary
This volume consists of empirically-grounded essays that examine digital life on three levels: individuals and digital identity; relationships routinely intertwining digital and physical connections; and broader institutional and societal realities that define the context of living in the digital age.
