Self-representation and digital culture
By: Nancy Thumim
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780230229662
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Self-presentation in mass media; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Digital media; Social aspects; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General
Description: 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. Self-Representation and Digital Culture addresses the institutional contexts of production, technology and form of the texts, and the point of view of those who represent themselves. This highly original research examines how contradictory and widely different politics inform and shape examples of 'speaking for oneself'. Thumim argues that analysis and theorization of the activity of self-representation is vital for media, communication and cultural studies at a time when examples of this genre both surround us and appear, at first glance, to all be alike.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.