Self-Representation and Digital Culture [electronic resource] /
Thumim, N.author.
Taking a close look at ordinary people 'telling their own story', Nancy Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Self-Representation and Digital Culture; Self-representation; Digital culture; Theoretical approach; 2 Histories of Self-Representation; Introduction; Constructing ordinary people and community; Constructing the public, building the nation; Debating the public, broadening the nation; Representing the public, limitations of the nation; Publics represent themselves inside, outside and against the nation; Political and economic contexts: the UK case; Conclusion: mediation and self-representation; 3 Mediation; Introduction; Mediation
Audience research4 Broadcasters; Introduction; Broadcasters, self-representation and digital culture; Capture Wales: textual mediation; Capture Wales: cultural mediation; Capture Wales: institutional mediation; Conclusion: self-representation and broadcasters; 5 Museums and Art Worlds; Introduction; Institutional mediation; Cultural mediation; Textual mediation; 6 Self-Representation Online; Introduction; Institutional mediation; Cultural mediation; Textual mediation; Conclusion; 7 Self-Representation, Digital Culture and Genre; Introduction; Self-representation and genre
Mediation and the uses of the genre of self-representationNotes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Taking a close look at ordinary people 'telling their own story', Nancy Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums.
Culture.
Communication.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Cultural studies.
Sociology of Culture.
Media Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Media Research.
Cultural Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.