Networked Selves

Descripción

Neuware -Networked Selves is an original analysis of one of the most defining cultural features of our time: how people turn to the Web to construct a public self. It examines the trajectory of a practice that embodies this sociocultural shift in fundamental ways: blogging. The book traces the evolution of the Web as a means to publicly perform a self through an analysis of the emergence, development, and transformation of blogging from the mid-1990s to the early years of the 2010s. It discusses processes that have shaped practices of subjectivity on the Web over two decades in two countries: the United States and France. Through this comparative analysis, the book shows that the cultural identity of blogging as a practice of subjectivity in these countries is neither inevitable nor neutral. Instead, it demonstrates that the development of the Web required the forging of various articulations between specific conceptions of self, publicness, and technology. These articulations were responses to both transformations in the daily life of actors and larger economic, political, and cultural processes¿notably neoliberalization. The book also explains how the cultural imaginary around blogs came into being in the United States and how it has also functioned as a model for actors in other countries, such as France. Networked Selves discusses how and why actors in the technology field in France have gradually abandoned traditional makers of exceptionalism that were key in the development of the country¿s national identity and favored notions that characterize the United States instead. 236 pp. Englisch.

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Título

Networked Selves

Editor

Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2017

Fecha de publicación

2017

Idioma

Inglés

ISBN 10

1433147092

ISBN 13

9781433147098

Encuadernación

Taschenbuch

Estado

Neu

Dimensiones

225 mm an. × 150 al. × 13 l. 225 milímetros de ancho por 150 de alto por 13 de largo

Peso

338 gramos

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