Title: Identity technologies : constructing the self online /
Authors: Poletti, Anna; Rak, Julie, 1966-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Autobiography; Online identities; Identity (Psychology) and mass media; Online social networks; Internet Social aspects; Identitätsentwicklung.; Internet; Selbstdarstellung; Soziales Netzwerk; Autobiography; Identity (Psychology) and mass media; Internet Social aspects; Online identities; Online social networks
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.