ABSTRACT
We tell stories about who we are. Through telling these stories, we connect with others and affirm our own sense of self. Spaces, be they online or offline; private or public; physical, augmented or virtual; or of a hybrid nature, present the performative realms upon which our stories unfold. This volume focuses on how digital platforms support, enhance, or confine the networked self. Contributors examine a range of issues relating to storytelling, platforms, and the self, including the live-reporting of events, the curation of information, emerging modalities of journalism, collaboratively formed memories, and the instant historification of the present.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|14 pages
News and the Networked Self
Performativity, Platforms, and Journalistic Epistemologies
chapter 4|16 pages
Publicness on Platforms
Tracing the Mutual Articulation of Platform Architectures and User Practices
chapter 7|17 pages
"The More I Look Like Justin Bieber in the Pictures, the Better"
Queer Women's Self-Representation on Instagram
chapter 8|14 pages
Affective Mobile Spectres
Understanding the Lives of Mobile Media Images of the Dead
chapter 9|19 pages
Cleavage-Control
Stories of Algorithmic Culture and Power in the Case of the YouTube "Reply Girls"
chapter 10|16 pages
From Networked to Quantified Self
Self-Tracking and the Moral Economy of Data Sharing
chapter 12|13 pages
The Networked Self and Defense of Privacy
Reading Surveillance Fiction in the Wake of the Snowden Revelations
