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Getting a Digital Life: Self-Presentation in Online Environments

March 31, 2014
5:00PM - 6:30PM
451 Hagerty Hall

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Add to Calendar 2014-03-31 17:00:00 2014-03-31 18:30:00 Getting a Digital Life: Self-Presentation in Online Environments Join the Department of Comparative Studies as Julia Watson addresses: "Getting a Digital Life: Self-Presentation in Online Environments".Digital environments situate subjects as assemblages of surfaces, networks, archives, nodes, and avatars in social media sites that are inescapably relational and interactive. Exploring key concepts in the contents, coordinates, and categories of self- presentation, such as archive, memory, identity, authenticity, branding, and quantification, points up how “self” is resituated as a distributed subjectivity across shifting relationships and ideological investments and suggests provocative questions about the possibilities of agency for virtual “I’s.”For more info, visit comparativestudies.osu.edu. 451 Hagerty Hall College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public


Join the Department of Comparative Studies as Julia Watson addresses: "Getting a Digital Life: Self-Presentation in Online Environments".

Digital environments situate subjects as assemblages of surfaces, networks, archives, nodes, and avatars in social media sites that are inescapably relational and interactive. Exploring key concepts in the contents, coordinates, and categories of self- presentation, such as archive, memory, identity, authenticity, branding, and quantification, points up how “self” is resituated as a distributed subjectivity across shifting relationships and ideological investments and suggests provocative questions about the possibilities of agency for virtual “I’s.”

For more info, visit comparativestudies.osu.edu.

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