Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self
Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self by Robert Cover, published by Elsevier S & T in 2015, is a comprehensive exploration of how digital communication technologies have transformed the understanding of identity. This 320-page book delves into the multifaceted nature of identity, examining various theories and approaches that illustrate how individuals perceive themselves and their representations in the digital age.
Readers will find a critical investigation into the complexities of online identities, emphasizing the role of digital users in shaping their self-representations and group narratives through interactive media. The book discusses the implications of globalization and the accessibility of digital platforms, providing insights into how these factors influence identity formation. Cover’s work makes complex theories accessible, using examples from social networking and interactive sites to illustrate the evolving landscape of identity in contemporary society.
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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
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