Digital Technologies Of The Self

Author : Yasmine Abbas,Fred Dervin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443815970

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Digital Technologies of the Self by Yasmine Abbas,Fred Dervin Pdf

Inspired by the “technologies of the self” theorized by Michel Foucault in the early 1980s, this volume investigates how contemporary individuals fashion their identity/identities using digital technologies such as ambient intelligent devices, social networking platforms and online communities (Facebook, CouchSurfing and craigslist), online gaming (SilkRoad Online, Oblivion and World of Warcraft), podcasts, etc. With high-speed internet access, ubiquitous computing and generous storage capacity, the opportunities for staging and transforming the self/selves have become nearly limitless. This book explores how technologies contribute to the expression, (co-)construction and enactment of identities. It examines these issues from various perspectives as it brings together insights from different disciplines – design, discourse analysis, philosophy and sociology.

Author : Cynthia Carter Ching,Brian J. Foley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780521513326

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Constructing the Self in a Digital World by Cynthia Carter Ching,Brian J. Foley Pdf

This title examines the relationship between identity and technology in the learning and lives of young people.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Self (Philosophy).
ISBN : 0422625701

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Technologies of the Self by Michel Foucault Pdf

Author : Anna Poletti,Julie Rak
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299296438

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Identity Technologies by Anna Poletti,Julie Rak Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Palm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317287193

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Technologies of Consumer Labor by Michael Palm Pdf

This book documents and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself. The telephone’s development as a self-service technology functions as the narrative spine, beginning with the advent of rotary dialing eliminating most operator services and transforming every local connection into an instance of self-service. Today, nearly a century later, consumers manipulate 0-9 keypads on a plethora of digital machines. Throughout the book Palm employs a combination of historical, political-economic and cultural analysis to describe how the telephone keypad was absorbed into business models across media, retail and financial industries, as the interface on everyday machines including the ATM, cell phone and debit card reader. He argues that the naturalization of self-service telephony shaped consumers’ attitudes and expectations about digital technology.

Author : Yasmin Ibrahim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319744360

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Production of the 'Self' in the Digital Age by Yasmin Ibrahim Pdf

This book investigates the relationship between the self and screen in the digital age, and examines how the notion of the self is re-negotiated and curated online. The chapters examine the production of the self in postmodernity through digital platforms by employing key concepts of ubiquity, the everyday, disembodiment and mortality. It locates self-production through ubiquitous imaging of the self and our environments with and through mobile technologies and in terms of its ‘embeddedness’ in our everyday lives. In this innovative text, Yasmin Ibrahim explores technology’s co-location on our corporeal body, our notions of domesticity and banality, our renewed relationship with the screen and our enterprise with capital as well as the role of desire in the formation of the self. The result is a richly interdisciplinary volume that seeks to examine the formation of the self online, through its renewed negotiations with personalised technologies and with the emergence of social networking sites.

Author : Diana Stypinska
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031181085

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Social Media, Truth and the Care of the Self by Diana Stypinska Pdf

This book explores the relationship between (post)truth and subjectivity by focusing on social media as a site of digital subjectification. These days, truth is cheap. Anyone can claim it. Indeed, most do – impudently and without any recourse to facts or objective reality. Truth-claims today are nothing but power grabs, employed in the permanent popularity contest that our culture and politics have become. Correspondingly, our very sense of reality is perpetually uprooted. Post-truth sets us adrift. Navigating by smartphones, we pursue endless mirages, coming to wonder whether the shoreline itself is a myth. The book examines the ways in which different digital practices – such as influencing, trolling and digital activism – operate as technologies of the subject, shaping how we relate to ourselves, others and the world. It argues that social media facilitates the progressive eclipsing of our subjective (dis)positions by the economic imperative. Positioning post-truth as the outcome of unbridled economicization, it exposes the true costs of its supremacy. The critical reflections on the relationship between digital subjectification and the social offered by this book will be of relevance to academics and students working in the fields of sociology, media and cultural studies, politics, and philosophy.

Author : Daria Bylieva,Alfred Nordmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030897086

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Technology, Innovation and Creativity in Digital Society by Daria Bylieva,Alfred Nordmann Pdf

This book requires an interdisciplinary understanding of creativity, ideal for the formation of a digital public culture. Educating students, young professionals and future engineers is to develop their capacity for creativity. Can creativity be learned? With this question, the relations of technology and art appear in a new light. Especially the notion of "progress" takes on a new meaning and must be distinguished from innovation. The discussion of particular educational approaches, the exploration of digital technologies and the presentation of best practice examples conclude the book. University teachers show how the teaching of creativity reinforces the teaching of other subjects, especially foreign languages.

Author : Mark Coeckelbergh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031179822

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Digital Technologies, Temporality, and the Politics of Co-Existence by Mark Coeckelbergh Pdf

Our digital existence is hurried and fast. We are tied to the present, or perhaps we are not present enough: immersed in digital social media and processes by artificial intelligence, we are hardly present to ourselves and to others, and feel alienated from nature. We are also made to fear climate change and the end of humanity. How can we live a good life and give meaning to our lives under these conditions? How can and should we co-exist today? Using process philosophy, narrative theory, and the concept of technoperformances, this book analyzes how digital technologies shape our relation to time and our existence, and discusses what this means in the light of climate change and new technologies such as AI. In dialogue with contemporary philosophy of technology and media theory and asking original questions about finding common times in what it calls the “Anthropochrone”, it proposes a conceptual framework that helps us to understand how we (should) exist and relate to time today.

Author : Wessel Reijers,Alberto Romele,Mark Coeckelbergh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538153475

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Interpreting Technology by Wessel Reijers,Alberto Romele,Mark Coeckelbergh Pdf

Paul Ricœur has been one of the most influential and intellectually challenging philosophers of the last century, and his work has contributed to a vast array of fields: studies of language, of history, of ethics and politics. However, he has up until recently only had a minor impact on the philosophy of technology. Interpreting Technology aims to put Ricœur’s work at the centre of contemporary philosophical thinking concerning technology. It investigates his project of critical hermeneutics for rethinking established theories of technology, the growing ethical and political impacts of technologies on the modern lifeworld, and ways of analysing global sociotechnical systems such as the Internet. Ricœur’s philosophy allows us to approach questions such as: how could narrative theory enhance our understanding of technological mediation? How can our technical practices be informed by the ethical aim of living the good life, with and for others, in just institutions? And how does the emerging global media landscape shape our sense of self, and our understanding of history? These questions are more timely than ever, considering the enormous impact technologies have on daily life in the 21st century: on how we shape ourselves with health apps, how we engage with one-another through social media, and how we act politically through digital platforms.

Author : Cynthia Carter Ching,Brian J. Foley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139576451

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Constructing the Self in a Digital World by Cynthia Carter Ching,Brian J. Foley Pdf

It has become popular in recent years to talk about 'identity' as an aspect of engagement with technology - in virtual environments, in games, in social media and in our increasingly digital world. But what do we mean by identity and how do our theories and assumptions about identity affect the kinds of questions we ask about its relationship to technology and learning? Constructing the Self in a Digital World takes up this question explicitly, bringing together authors working from different models of identity but all examining the role of technology in the learning and lives of children and youth.

Author : Avishek Ray,Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan,Usha Raman,Martin Web,Neha Gupta,Sai Amulya Komarraju,Anuja Premika,Riad Azam,Farhat Salim,Pranavesh Subramanian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781003847373

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Digital Expressions of the Self(ie) by Avishek Ray,Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan,Usha Raman,Martin Web,Neha Gupta,Sai Amulya Komarraju,Anuja Premika,Riad Azam,Farhat Salim,Pranavesh Subramanian Pdf

The book examines the social and cultural role of selfies in India. It looks at how the selfie, unlike the photograph, which was a gesture towards an external reality, remains intimately self-referential, yet reconfigures social ordering, identity formation, agency, and spaces in curious ways. This volume approaches questions about the construction and performance of the self through the digital selfie and uses this situated, contextualized, and culturally specific phenomenon as a site to explore the themes of self-making, place-making, gender, subjectivity, and power. Highlighting the specific contexts of production, the authors examine the array of self-expressive capabilities realized in a multitude of uses of the selfie that simultaneously reconfigure the self, the space, and the world. An important study of visual social media culture, the volume will be useful for interpreting everyday media experiences and will be of interest to students and researchers of image studies, visual studies, photography studies, visual culture, media studies, culture studies, cultural anthropology, digital humanities, popular culture, sociology of technology, and South Asian studies.

Author : E. King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137338761

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Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian Culture by E. King Pdf

Fictional narratives produced in Latin America often borrow tropes from contemporary science fiction to examine the shifts in the nature of power in neoliberal society. King examines how this leads towards a market-governed control society and also explores new models of agency beyond that of the individual.

Author : Federica Buongiorno,Bernhard Irrgang,Dennis Weiss,Constanze Fanger,Galit Wellner,Friederike Frenzel,Manja Unger-Büttner,Andrea Pace Giannotta,Lucilla Guidi,Mathias Fuchs,Nadine Reinhardt,Christoph Wulf
Publisher : Inschibboleth edizioni
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20T00:00:00
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788855290623

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Azimuth VII (2019), nr. 14. Subjectivity and Digital Culture – Soggettività e cultura digitale by Federica Buongiorno,Bernhard Irrgang,Dennis Weiss,Constanze Fanger,Galit Wellner,Friederike Frenzel,Manja Unger-Büttner,Andrea Pace Giannotta,Lucilla Guidi,Mathias Fuchs,Nadine Reinhardt,Christoph Wulf Pdf

What role does subjectivity play in digital culture? While the 19th century was characterized by print culture and the 20th century by broadcasting culture, we are now experiencing a new paradigm shift: digital technology has radically changed the way we produce (and consume) information, goods, values, social relationships, institutional bonds, etc. Subjects living in such a digital environment are ‘digitalizing’ themselves as well: the label ‘digital Self’ can help understand this change by establishing a parallel between subject and culture based on their common feature of being ‘digital’. Nevertheless, significant differences in this ‘being digital’ on both sides are at play, which should not be overlooked if we are to critically understand not only what a ‘digital Self’ and a ‘digital culture’ are, but also their dark sides and most problematic aspects. With this issue, our aim is to provide an interdisciplinary overview of the most problematic features of digital culture and the digital self according to contemporary debate, which might suggest new directions for future research and collaborative work.

Author : Timothy Recuber
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479814978

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The Digital Departed by Timothy Recuber Pdf

A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death From blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left by those considering suicide, technology has become a medium for the dead and the dying to cope with the anxiety of death. Services like artificial intelligence chatbots, mind-uploading, and postmortem blog posts offer individuals the ability to cultivate their legacies in a bid for digital immortality. The Digital Departed explores the posthumous internet world from the perspective of both the living and the dead. Timothy Recuber traces how communication beyond death evolved over time. Historically, the methods of mourning have been characterized by unequal access to power and privilege. However, the internet offers more agency to the dead, allowing users accessibility and creativity in curating how they want to be remembered. Based on hundreds of blog posts, suicide notes, Twitter hashtags, and videos, Recuber examines the ways we die online, and the digital texts we leave behind. Combining these data with interviews, surveys, analysis of news coverage, and a historical overview of the relationship between death and communication technology going back to pre-history, The Digital Departed explains what it means to live and die on the internet today. In this thought-provoking and uniquely troubling work, Recuber shows that although we might pass away, our digital souls live on, online, in a kind of purgatory of their own.