Identity Technologies: Constructing The Self Online

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From Facebook to Twitter and beyond: How do we create identities in cyberspace? Identity Technologies is a substantial contribution to the fields of autobiography studies, digital studies, and new media studies, exploring the many new modes of self-expression and self-fashioning that have arisen in conjunction with Web 2.0, social networking, and the increasing saturation of wireless communication devices in everyday life. This volume explores the various ways that individuals construct their identities on the Internet and offers historical perspectives on ways that technologies intersect with identity creation. Bringing together scholarship about the construction of the self by new and established authors from the fields of digital media and auto/biography studies, Identity Technologies presents new case studies and fresh theoretical questions emphasizing the methodological challenges inherent in scholarly attempts to account for and analyze the rise of identity technologies. The collection also includes an interview with Lauren Berlant on her use of blogs as research and writing tools. Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction: Digital Dialogues - Anna Poletti and Julie Rak......Page 12 Foundations......Page 32 Beyond Anonymity, or Future Directions for Internet Identity Research - Helen Kennedy......Page 34 Cyberrace - Lisa Nakamura......Page 51 Becoming and Belonging: Performativity, Subjectivity, and the Cultural Purposes of Social Networking - Rob Cover......Page 64 Virtually Me: A Toolbox about Online Self-Presentation - Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson......Page 79 Identity Affordances......Page 106 Adultery Technologies - Melissa Gregg......Page 108 Facebook and Coaxed Affordances - Aimée Morrison......Page 121 Archiving Disaster and National Identity in the Digital Realm: The September 11 Digital Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank - Courtney Rivard......Page 141 Life Bytes: Six-Word Memoir and the Exigencies of Auto/tweetographies - Laurie McNeill......Page 153 Mediated Communities......Page 174 Negotiating Identities/Queering Desires: Coming Out Online and the Remediation of the Coming-Out Story - Mary L. Gray......Page 176 “Treat Us Right!”: Digital Publics, Emerging Biosocialities, and the Female Complaint - Olivia Banner......Page 207 Cyber-Self: In Search of a Lost Identity? - Alessandra Micalizzi......Page 226 Homeless Nation: Producing Legal Subjectivities through New Media - Suzanne Bouclin......Page 238 Reflections......Page 254 Autobiography and New Communication Tools - Philippe Lejeune, translated by Katherine Durnin......Page 256 The Blog as Experimental Setting: An Interview with Lauren Berlant - Anna Poletti and Julie Rak......Page 268 Contributors......Page 282 Index......Page 288