Transmedia Selves: Identity and Persona Creation in the Age of Mobile and Multiplatform Media

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Conceptualising the transmedia self
	A transmedia age
	Conceptualising the transmedia self
	A statement of aims
	Ongoing conceptions of transmedia selves
	A note on the collection
	References
Part I: Communication of the Self
	Chapter 1: Story of the (Virtual) Self: Transmedial Narrative Construction through Social Media Usage
		Introduction
		The Semiotic Units of the Virtual Self
		The Relational Framework
		The Storyworld of the Virtual Self and Its Narrative Construction: Three Variations
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 2: Personal Storytelling: A Semiotics Approach to Constructing Identities across Media
		Introduction
		The Marketplace of Identities
		Identity in Semiotics
		The Model of Analysis
		A Personal (Trans) Media Strategy
		Analysis
			Proper Identity
			Relational Identity
			Narrative Identity
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: Professional Transmedia Selves: Finding a Place for Enterprise Social Media
		Introduction
		Background
			Identity, Social Media and Transmedia
			Enterprise Social Media and the Professional Self
		Data Collection
		Analysis
			Three Strategies of Integrating Enterprise Social Media
				Case #1: Self-Directed Usage and Career-Consciousness
				Case #2: Social World–Directed Usage and Citizenship in the Organisation
				Case #3: System-Directed Usage and Conviviality
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 4: The post-digital Self: How Transmedia Dissolves the Boundaries of Work and Tourism
		Introduction
		The transmedia worker
			“Sometimes off” is the new “always on”
			Transmedia work in the post-digital workplace
		The transmedia tourist
			Logistical labour and the threat of decapsulation in tourism
			Digital detox retreats as post-digital asylums
		Conclusion: the coming of the post-digital self
		Notes
		References
Part II: Technologies of the Self
	Chapter 5: The Transtemporal Self: Transmedia, Self, and Time
		References
			Film
	Chapter 6: Crossing Space-Time-Action: Digital Self-Tracking Technologies and the Zero-Dimensionality of the Transmedia Self (via Vilém Flusser’s First and Second Degree Imaginations)
		Introduction
		Media and Their Dimensionalities of Space, Time and Action
		The Digitally Tracked Self: From the Rational to the Irrational; From the Four Dimensional to Zero-Dimensionality
		Conclusion
		References
			Filmic References
	Chapter 7: Geotagging the Self: Analysing the Locative Dimension of Constructed Transmedia Identities
		Locating the Digital Self
		Corpus of Study and Methods
		Analysis
		Translocative Self
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Made in My Image: Co-produced Fantasy and the Politics of Play
		The Facialization of Fantasy and the Perforation of the Real
		The Social and Political Agency of Play and the Shifting of Glam(our)
			The Virtual Consummation of Real Intimacy
			To Produce without Reproducing: The Limit as the Edge
		Note
		References
Part III: Politics of the Self
	Chapter 9: Trans, Media and [In]Visibility: Trans Representation in the Transmedia Era
		Introduction
		Mass Media & Trans Objectification
		Postmedia & Trans Representation
		Transmedia & Trans [In]Visibility
		Digital Natives & Trans Narratives
			Transmedia Is Transgender
		[In]Visibility by Choice
		[In]Visibility by Force
		Future Media & Trans Futures
		Bibliography
			Films
	Chapter 10: The Manosphere: Incel as Transmedial Construction
		Introduction
		The Manosphere, The Red Pill, and Incel
		Translocal Misogyny and Transmedia Technologies
		Fan Culture and Engagement in the Incel Community
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 11: #PrayforAmazonia: Transmedia Mobilisation within National, Transnational and International Identities
		Introduction
		Background
		The Transmediated Self in the Midst of Transmedia Mobilisation
		Methodology of the Analysis
		Semiotic Analysis of #PrayforAmazonia
			Day of Fire
			Day Became Night in São Paulo
		Speech at the UN General Assembly
		Final Considerations
		Acknowledgement
		References
	Chapter 12: The Kabir Project: Using Transmedia Work to Disrupt Right-Wing Narratives of Othering
		Introduction
		The Kabir Project
		Transmedial Constructions of Right-Wing Hindutva Identity
		Transmediated Self within the Context of The Kabir Project
		The Filmmaking Process and the Collaborative Universe of The Kabir Project
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
		References
Index