Full Description
We tell stories about who we are. Through telling these stories, we connect with others and affirm our own sense of self. Spaces, be they online or offline; private or public; physical, augmented or virtual; or of a hybrid nature, present the performative realms upon which our stories unfold. This volume focuses on how digital platforms support, enhance, or confine the networked self. Contributors examine a range of issues relating to storytelling, platforms, and the self, including the live-reporting of events, the curation of information, emerging modalities of journalism, collaboratively formed memories, and the instant historification of the present.
Contents
Introduction
Zizi Papacharissi
The Networked Self in the Age of Identity Fundamentalism
Daniel Kreiss
News and the Networked Self: Performativity, Platforms, and Journalistic Epistemologies
Matt Carlson and Seth C. Lewis
Publicness on Platforms: Tracing the mutual articulation of platform architectures and user practices
Thomas Poell, Sudha Rajagopalan, and Anastasia Kavada
The Bot Proxy: Designing Automated Self Expression
Samuel Woolley, Samantha Shorey, and Philip Howard
The Emotional Architecture of Social Media
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
"The more I look like Justin Bieber in the pictures, the better": Queer women's self-representation on Instagram
Stefanie Duguay
Affective Mobile Spectres: Understanding the Lives of Mobile Media Images of the Dead
Larissa Hjorth and Kathleen M. Cumiskey
Cleavage-control: Stories of algorithmic culture and power in the case of the YouTube 'Reply Girls'.
Taina Bucher
From networked to quantified self: Self-tracking and the moral economy of data
Aristea Fotopoulou
'Doing' Local: Place-Based Travel Apps and the Globally Networked Self
Erika Polson
The Networked Self and Defense of Privacy: Reading Surveillance Fiction in the Wake of the Snowden Revelations
Adrienne Russell and Risto Kunelius
Mobile Media Stories and the Process of Designing Contested Landscapes
Jason Farman
