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Digital Identities,

Edition 1 Creating and Communicating the Online Self

By Rob Cover

Publication Date: 29 Sep 2015

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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.

Key Features

Makes accessible complex theories of identity from the perspective of today’s contemporary, digital media environment
Examines how digital media has added to the complexity of identity
Takes readers through examples of online identity such as in interactive sites and social networking
Explores implications of inter-cultural access that emerges from globalization and world-wide networking

About the author

By Rob Cover, Discipline Chair, Media and Communication Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia

Cover
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ubiquitous Digital Networks, Identity, and the Self
Chapter 1: Understanding Identity Online: Social Networking
- Abstract
- 1. Approaching identity
- 2. Web 1.0 and online fluidity
- 3. Profiles and performativity
- 4. Identity, friendship, and the network
- 5. Identity, multiplicities, and undoing
Chapter 2: Performativity, Communication, and Selfhood
- Abstract
- 1. Identity in a media-saturated contemporary world
- 2. Accessing identity information: available and unavailable discourses
- 3. Mediating the self in a circular world – citationality and reading formations
- 4. Conclusions: media, normativity, and pedagogy
Chapter 3: Interactivity, Digital Media, and the Text
- Abstract
- 1. Digital media environments and identity today
- 2. The nature of interactivity
- 3. Interactivity and the author–text–audience relationship – synergy and struggle
- 4. Push and pull: audience interactivity in history
- 5. Reality TV, mixed mediums, and open/closed textualities
- 6. Digital rights management and flashes: digital wars and interactive struggles
- 7. Interactive identity
Chapter 4: Bodies, Identity, and Digital Corporeality
- Abstract
- 1. Defining the body
- 2. Representing corporeality on-screen
- 3. Body–technology relationalities
- 4. Body information: the body as a project
Chapter 5: Identity, Internet, and Globalization
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The concept of globalization
- 3. Global discursivity
- 4. Global time, fluctuating space
- 5. Global communication, ethics, and the importance of sound and listening
Chapter 6: Mobile Telephony, Mobility, and Networked Subjectivity
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mobile devices, accessibility, and ubiquitous connectivity
- 3. Representing early adopters: from community to network
- 4. Mobile assemblages, mobilities, and the public/private distinction
- 5. Conclusions: performativity, identity, and the mobile network
Chapter 7: Online Selves: Digital Addiction
- Abstract
- 1. The diction of addiction
- 2. The youthful addict – a stereotype
- 3. Online addiction
- 4. Gaming addiction and new temporalities
- 5. Digital/real and the discourse of the addict
Chapter 8: Digital Surveillance, Archives, and Google Earth: Identities in/of the Digital World
- Abstract
- 1. Digital surveillance and contemporary identity
- 2. Archiving the world
- 3. Archiving and surveilling the Earth
- 4. Conclusions: digital identities
References
Subject Index

ISBN: 9780124200838

Page Count: 320

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