Research Catalog

Title

Identity technologies : constructing the self online / edited by Anna Poletti and Julie Rak.

Publication

• Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• Poletti, Anna
• Rak, Julie, 1966-

Description

viii, 286 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Wisconsin studies in autobiography

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Wisconsin studies in autobiography.

Subject

• Autobiography
• Online identities
• Identity (Psychology) and mass media
• Online social networks
• Internet > Social aspects
• Identitätsentwicklung
• Internet
• Selbstdarstellung
• Soziales Netzwerk

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Digital dialogues / Anna Poletti and Julie Rak -- Foundations. Beyond anonymity, or future directions for internet identity research / Helen Kennedy -- Cyberrace / Lisa Nakamura -- Becoming and belonging: performativity, subjectivity, and the cultural purposes of social networking / Rob Cover -- Virtually me: a toolbox about online self-presentation / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson -- Identity affordances. Adultery technologies / Melissa Gregg -- Facebook and coaxed affordances / Aimée Morrison -- Archiving disaster and national identity in the digital realm: the September 11 digital archive and the hurricane digital memory bank / Courtney Rivard -- Life bytes: six-world memoir and the exigencies of auto/tweetographies / Laurie McNeil -- Mediated communities. Negotiating identities/queering desires: coming out online and the remediation of the coming-out story / Mary L. Gray -- "Treat us right!": digital publics, emerging biosocialities, and the female complaint / Olivia Banner -- Cyber-self: in search of a lost identity? / Alessandra Micalizzi -- Homeless nation: producing legal subjectivities through new media / Suzanne Bouclin -- Reflections. Autobiography and new communication tools / Philippe Lejeune, translated by Katherine Durnin -- The blog as experimental setting: an interview with Lauren Berlant / Anna Poletti and Julie Rak.

ISBN

• 9780299296445 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 029929644X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780299296438 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013011469

OCLC

• 841186991
• SCSB-11611976

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library