Identity and Digital Communication: Concepts, Theories, Practices

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Identities: Subjectivity and Selfhood in a Digital World
	1.1 Introduction
		1.1.1 Identity and Digital Cultures
		1.1.2 About this Book
	1.2 Making Sense of Identity
		1.2.1 The Origins of an Idea of Identity
		1.2.2 Marxist Accounts of Identity
		1.2.3 Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious
		1.2.4 Constructionist and Postmodern Approaches
		1.2.5 Foucault, Institutions and Disciplinary Norms
		1.2.6 Judith Butler and Performativity
		1.2.7 Using Theories of Identity
	1.3 Early Internet and the Idea of Identity Online
	1.4 The Changing Digital World
		1.4.1 Web 2.0
		1.4.2 Collapsing the Real/virtual Divide
	1.5 Angles of Identity
	Key Points
	References
2 Interactivities: Performativity, Social Media and Online Participation
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Participatory Digital Creativity
		2.2.1 What Is Interactivity?
		2.2.2 Participatory Digital Creativity
		2.2.3 Discerning Interactivity and Participation By Type
		2.2.4 Interactivity and the Author–text–audience Relationship: Synergy and Struggle
		2.2.5 Push-And-Pull: Audience Interactivity in History
		2.2.6 Identity and Interactivity
	2.3 Identity Performativity and Social Media Profiles
		2.3.1 Social Media and the Performativity of Identity
		2.3.2 Interacting Across the Social Network
	2.4 Complexifying Identity On Social Media
		2.4.1 Commentaries
		2.4.2 Disrupting the Past: the Archive
		2.4.3 Tagging
	2.5 Conclusion
	Key Points
	References
3 Bodies: Digital Corporeality and Identity
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Defining the Body
		3.2.1 Digital Identities Without Bodies? Never
	3.3 Representing Bodies On the Digital Screen
		3.3.1 Stereotypes: Image, Movement and Categories of Discrimination
		3.3.2 Gaming Bodies, Corporeal Avatars and Characters
	3.4 Body–technology Relationalities
		3.4.1 Touch-Friendly and Wearable Technologies
		3.4.2 Bodily Practices and Technologies
		3.4.3 Body Information: the Body as a Project
		3.4.4 The Concept of the Seam
	3.5 Conclusion
	Key Points
	References
4 Simulacras: The Evolution of the Deepfake
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Deepfake as a Topic of Concern
	4.3 Deepfake as a Technology of Identity (Fraud)
	4.4 Deepfake as a Cultural Technology
	4.5 Identity and Simulacra
	4.6 Regulating the Deepfake
	4.7 Conclusion
	Key Points
	References
5 Geographies: Globalisation and Re-Nationalisation of Digital Communication
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Digital Communication as a Globalising Technology
	5.3 Beyond the Local/global Dichotomy
	5.4 Globalisation and Identity
	5.5 Global and Digital Space
	5.6 The Re-Nationalisation of Digital Communication
	5.7 National Identity and Regulation?
	5.8 Conclusion
	Key Points
	References
6 Hostilities: Trolling, Hate Speech and Exclusion in Digital Settings
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 What Is Digital Hostility?
	6.3 Digital Hostility as a Cultural Issue for the 2020s
	6.4 Digital Divides: Misogyny and Racism Online
	6.5 Identity and Digital Hostility
	6.6 Mass Shaming and the Digital Mob
	6.7 Identity and Cancelled Subjectivity
	6.8 Conclusion
	Key Points
	References
7 Agencies: Algorithms, Choices and Artificial Decision-Making
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 The Social Dilemma
		7.2.1 Algorithms Used to Increase Advertising Revenue
		7.2.2 Algorithms Changing Behaviour
		7.2.3 Digital Addiction
		7.2.4 Surveillance
		7.2.5 Polarisation
		7.2.6 Algorithms and Social Approval
	7.3 Algorithms, Everyday Life and Everyday Inequalities
	7.4 Available and Unavailable Knowledges
	7.5 Algorithms, Identity and Agency
	7.6 Conclusion
	Key Points
	References
8 Authenticities: TikTok and the Perception of Authentic Identities
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 TikTok in a Culture of Platform Renewal
		8.2.1 TikTok and Platform Innovation
		8.2.2 The ‘Big Sibling’ Platform Syndrome
		8.2.3 Uses, Gratifications and Attainment
	8.3 Authenticity and Representation
		8.3.1 What Is Authenticity?
		8.3.2 TikTok as ‘Authentic’ Aesthetic
		8.3.3 Celebrity Culture and Professionalisation
	8.4 TikTok Authenticity and the Inconvenience of Other People
	8.5 Conclusion
	Key Points
	References
9 Futures: The Self in Development
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Digital Communication and Identity
	9.3 The Metaverse and Beyond
		9.3.1 The Metaverse
	References
Index