Virtual Identities And Digital Culture

Author : Victoria Kannen,Aaron Langille
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000843088

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Virtual Identities and Digital Culture by Victoria Kannen,Aaron Langille Pdf

Virtual Identities and Digital Culture investigates how our online identities and cultures are embedded within the digital practices of our lives, exploring how we form community, how we play, and how we re-imagine traditional media in a digital world. The collection explores a wide range of digital topics – from dating apps, microcelebrity, and hackers to auditory experiences, Netflix algorithms, and live theatre online – and builds on existing work in digital culture and identity by bringing new voices, contemporary examples, and highlighting platforms that are emerging in the field. The book speaks to the modern reality of how our digital lives have been forever altered by our transnational experiences – one of those key experiences is the pandemic, but so too is systemic inequality, questions of digital privacy, and the role of joy in our online lives. A vital contribution at a time of significant social and cultural flux, this book will be highly relevant to those studying digital culture within media, communication, cultural studies, digital humanities, and sociology departments.

Author : Jacob van Kokswijk
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789059722033

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Digital Ego by Jacob van Kokswijk Pdf

Author : Rob Cover
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780128004272

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Digital Identities by Rob Cover Pdf

Online Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self presents a critical investigation of the ways in which representations of identities have shifted since the advent of digital communications technologies. Critical studies over the past century have pointed to the multifaceted nature of identity, with a number of different theories and approaches used to explain how everyday people have a sense of themselves, their behaviors, desires, and representations. In the era of interactive, digital, and networked media and communication, identity can be understood as even more complex, with digital users arguably playing a more extensive role in fashioning their own self-representations online, as well as making use of the capacity to co-create common and group narratives of identity through interactivity and the proliferation of audio-visual user-generated content online. Makes accessible complex theories of identity from the perspective of today’s contemporary, digital media environment Examines how digital media has added to the complexity of identity Takes readers through examples of online identity such as in interactive sites and social networking Explores implications of inter-cultural access that emerges from globalization and world-wide networking

Author : Vincent Miller
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446246481

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Understanding Digital Culture by Vincent Miller Pdf

"This is an outstanding book. It is one of only a few scholarly texts that successfully combine a nuanced theoretical understanding of the digital age with empirical case studies of contemporary media culture. The scope is impressive, ranging from questions of digital inequality to emergent forms of cyberpolitics." - Nick Gane, York University "Well written, very up-to-date with a good balance of examples and theory. It′s good to have all the major issues covered in one book." - Peter Millard, Portsmouth University "This is just the text I was looking for to enable first year undergraduates to develop their critical understanding of the technologies they have embedded so completely in their lives." - Chris Simpson, University College of St Mark & St John This is more than just another book on Internet studies. Tracing the pervasive influence of ′digital culture′ throughout contemporary life, this text integrates socio-economic understandings of the ′information society′ with the cultural studies approach to production, use, and consumption of digital media and multimedia. Refreshingly readable and packed with examples from profiling databases and mashups to cybersex and the truth about social networking, Understanding Digital Culture: Crosses disciplines to give a balanced account of the social, economic and cultural dimensions of the information society. Illuminates the increasing importance of mobile, wireless and converged media technologies in everyday life. Unpacks how the information society is transforming and challenging traditional notions of crime, resistance, war and protest, community, intimacy and belonging. Charts the changing cultural forms associated with new media and its consumption, including music, gaming, microblogging and online identity. Illustrates the above through a series of contemporary, in-depth case studies of digital culture. This is the perfect text for students looking for a full account of the information society, virtual cultures, sociology of the Internet and new media.

Author : Grant D. Bollmer
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526453099

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Theorizing Digital Cultures by Grant D. Bollmer Pdf

The rapid development of digital technologies continues to have far reaching effects on our daily lives. This book explains how digital media—in providing the material and infrastructure for a host of practices and interactions—affect identities, bodies, social relations, artistic practices, and the environment. Theorizing Digital Cultures: Shows students the importance of theory for understanding digital cultures and presents key theories in an easy-to-understand way Considers the key topics of cybernetics, online identities, aesthetics and ecologies Explores the power relations between individuals and groups that are produced by digital technologies Enhances understanding through applied examples, including YouTube personalities, Facebook’s ‘like’ button and holographic performers Clearly structured and written in an accessible style, this is the book students need to get to grips with the key theoretical approaches in the field. It is essential reading for students and researchers of digital culture and digital society throughout the social sciences.

Author : Warburton, Steven
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466619166

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Digital Identity and Social Media by Warburton, Steven Pdf

"This book examines the impact of digital identities on our day-to-day activities from a range of contemporary technical and socio-cultural perspectives while allowing the reader to deepen understanding about the diverse range of tools and practices that compose the spectrum of online identity services and uses"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Michiel de Lange,Valerie Frissen,Joost Raessens,Sybille Lammes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Computer games
ISBN : 9089646396

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Playful Identities by Michiel de Lange,Valerie Frissen,Joost Raessens,Sybille Lammes Pdf

In this publication, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. This interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity.

Author : Rob Cover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000836714

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Identity and Digital Communication by Rob Cover Pdf

This comprehensive text explores the relationship between identity, subjectivity and digital communication, providing a strong starting point for understanding how fast-changing communication technologies, platforms, applications and practices have an impact on how we perceive ourselves, others, relationships and bodies. Drawing on critical studies of identity, behaviour and representation, Identity and Digital Communication demonstrates how identity is shaped and understood in the context of significant and ongoing shifts in online communication. Chapters cover a range of topics including advances in social networking, the development of deepfake videos, intimacies of everyday communication, the emergence of cultures based on algorithms, the authenticities of TikTok and online communication’s setting as a site for hostility and hate speech. Throughout the text, author Rob Cover shows how the formation and curation of self-identity is increasingly performed and engaged with through digital cultural practices, affirming that these practices must be understood if we are to make sense of identity in the 2020s and beyond. Featuring critical accounts, everyday examples and analysis of key platforms such as TikTok, this textbook is an essential primer for scholars and students in media studies, psychology, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, computer science, as well as health practitioners, mental health advocates and community members.

Author : Ken Hillis
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0816632502

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Digital Sensations by Ken Hillis Pdf

"Ken Hillis is assistant professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Steve Jones
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761955267

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Virtual Culture by Steve Jones Pdf

About internet culture.

Author : David Trend
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0631223029

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Reading Digital Culture by David Trend Pdf

Computer technology has transformed many fundamental parts of life: how we work and play, how we communicate and consume, how we create knowledge and learn, even how we understand politics and participate in public life. Reading Digital Culture is a comprehensive collection of the most influential essays on digital media written in recent years.

Author : Thomas Maschio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000484472

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Digital Cultures, Lived Stories and Virtual Reality by Thomas Maschio Pdf

This book focuses on the meaning and experience of digital practice, emerging from work in the world of business and drawing on recent anthropological thinking on digital culture. Tom Maschio suggests that the digital is a space of a new "story culture" and considers the lived experience of new technologies. The chapters cover: storytelling in journalism and business with the new technology of virtual reality, the emerging meanings of social media and community building in the digital space, the uses and meanings of visual imagery online, and the cultural meanings of smartphone technology use and the "mobile life." The book incorporates ideas from humanistic anthropology and phenomenology in order to bring business problems into alignment with human concerns and desires, and to show the application of anthropological ideas to real-world issues. As well as anthropologists, the book will be valuable to business students and professionals interested in the digital realm.

Author : Önay Dogan, Betül,Gül Ünlü, Derya
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522569992

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Handbook of Research on Examining Cultural Policies Through Digital Communication by Önay Dogan, Betül,Gül Ünlü, Derya Pdf

Culture is one of the most important elements for explaining individuals' behaviors within the social structure. It meets the various social needs of members of a society by directing how individuals must react to various events and how to act in specific circumstances. A planned and systematic process is required for disseminating this cultural accumulation as a policy, which is produced collectively by all members within their everyday life practices. The Handbook of Research on Examining Cultural Policies Through Digital Communication provides emerging research on this aspect of cultural policy, which is formed within the framework of this systematic process in a strategic manner and can be defined as various activities of the state intended for art, human sciences, and cultural inheritance. Creating such cultural policies involves the establishment of measures and organizations required for the development of each individual, providing economic and social facilities, all of which are actions intended for directing society. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as long-distance education, digital citizenship, and public diplomacy, this book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, sociologists, international and national organizations, and government officials.

Author : John Postill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003851332

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The Anthropology of Digital Practices by John Postill Pdf

The Anthropology of Digital Practices connects for the first time three distinct research areas – digital ethnography, causal ethnography, and media practice theory – to explore how we might track the effects of new media practices in a digital world. It invites media and communication students and scholars to overcome the field’s old aversion to ‘media effects’ and explores the messy, complex, open-ended effects of new media practices in a digital age. Based on long-term ethnographic research and drawing from recent advances in the study of causality and ethnography, this book tells the ‘formation story’ of the anti-woke movement through a series of critical media events. It argues that digital media practices (e.g. podcasting, YouTubing, tweeting, commenting, broadcasting) will have ‘formative’ effects on an emerging social world at different points in time. One important task of the digital ethnographer is precisely to distinguish between the formative and non-formative effects of specific media practices. This book makes three contributions to our understanding of media practices in the digital era, namely a theoretical, methodological, and empirical contribution. Theoretically, it furthers the ‘practice turn’ in media and communication studies by engaging with the latest thinking on causality and ethnography. Methodologically, it serves as a compelling, up-to-date guide to doing digital ethnography, with special reference to the study of digitally mediated practices. Empirically, it is the first book-length study of the anti-woke movement, a major actor in the ‘culture wars’ currently being fought across the Western world. With its accessible language and rich case studies, The Anthropology of Digital Practices will make an ideal supplementary textbook for a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in research methods, digital ethnography/anthropology, and digital activism.

Author : Ozren Rafajac,Alen Jakupović
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031474606

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Integral Communication and Digital Identity by Ozren Rafajac,Alen Jakupović Pdf

This book explains how taxonomy can be used to describe and connect social actors in an integral way. Integral communication refers to a specific way of open information exchange which uses all qualities and preferences of subjects in conversation and allows anonymous feedback exchange, which enhances trust, learning and development. The role of integral communication is to promote perceptiveness, collaboration, personal development, and organizational learning among all the actors involved. In this book, the authors propose a new original way of digital communication that uses tags and their metadata to describe qualities and preferences of a particular node in the network. Although most social networks, sharing platforms and e-government frameworks are already applying taxonomies and social tagging to define user identity, none of them is focused on tags exclusively, while within an integral communication framework they represent the basic element of user definition and networking. In addition, other social platforms rarely allow anonymous feedback exchange, and they are usually not focused on the personal development of their end-users. Aside from helping actors present their attributes and preferences, integral communication promotes teamwork, sustainability, trust, organisational learning, and personalized communication with AI machines. After reading this book, readers will learn how to harness the power of integral networking and understand why anonymous feedback is a critical element for learning and development.