Research Catalog

Title

Digital identities : creating and communicating the online self / Rob Cover.

Author

Cover, Rob

Publication

• Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press/Elsevier, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xxiii, 294 pages; 23 cm

Summary

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.

Alternative Title

Creating and communicating the online self

Subjects

• Online identities
• Internet > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Understanding identity online : social networking -- Performativity, communication, and selfhood -- Interactivity, digital media, and the text -- Bodies, identity, and digital corporeality -- Identity, Internet, and globalization -- Mobile telephony, mobility, and networked subjectivity -- Online selves : digital addiction -- Digital surveillance, archives, and Google Earth : identities in/of the digital world.

ISBN

• 9780124200838 (paperback)
• 0124200834 (paperback)

OCLC

• 929135581
• SCSB-10991051

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library