Identitet
I dag
What is identity Identity in cyberspace Tekst-guides velser
Who am I?
Identity can be seen as the interface between subjective positions and social and cultural situations... Identity gives us an idea of who we are and of how we relate to others and to the world in which we live. Identity marks the ways in which we are the same as others who share that position, and the ways in which we are different from those who do not.'
TurnitToJohn (from FLICKR)
Evolution of identity
Movement: no question to national to personal (Freud) to modern crisis (Giddens) to postmodern dissolutions (Turkle?)
Identity crisis
Stuart Hall (2000) tries to deconstruct the idea of integral, originary and unified identity:
Identities are increasingly fragmented and fractured; never singular but multiply constructed accross different, often intersecting and antagonistic, discourses, practices and positions. They are subject to a radical historicization, and are constantly in the process of change and transformation. (Hall, 2000: 17)
essentialist identity
Everybody from a country, ethnia, etc. shares a clear authentic set of characteristics with do not alter across time. Often claims of common history or culture Tied to the physical: first territory, later body; i.e. racial or sexual identity Disrupted by: globalization, inmigration, break-ups such as USSR... Attempts to recover identity often produced against the threat of the Other (such as Islam)
(Woodward, 1997: 11-19)
(Woodward, 1997)
imaginary identity
When we claim the past as an identity we reconstruct it (Caribbeanness) Cultural identity about Becoming, as well as being Difference, i.e. how Martinique is and is not French Main point: we are not only positioned by identity, we can also position ourselves and reconstruct and transform historical identities.
Hall, 1990
group identities
Bourdieu- individuals integrated in fields: families, peer groups, work, etc. Each has a material context and symbolic resources. We are the same person but have different roles, performance (Goffman)
Impression given Impression given off
Identity in cyberspace
Imaginary identity
In our courseplan
Identitet Flleskab (group identities) Politik & Etik (class) Sex & Krop (representation, RL-VL) Kn (Gender debate) Subkultur (Identity investment)
Alter Ego: Avatars and Their Creators Tracy Spaight & Robbie Cooper 2007
Digital Kultur/02.10/15
Digital self-presentation
"I KISS YOU!!!!!!!" "Who is want to come TURKEY I can invitate ..... She can stay my home ........" "I like music , I have many many music enstrumans my home I can play" "I like to be friendship from different country" (Mahir website, 1999)
http://www.ikissyou.org/
Spinoff of Lonelygirl1 5
give us a break!
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Bibliography
BOURDIEU, P. 1984. Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste. Cambrige, MA: Harvard University Press. CIXOUS, Hlne. 1975. Sorties In MARKS, 1980. French Feminisms: an anthology. Amherst: The University of Massachussetts Press. DIBBELL, Julian. A rape in Cyberspace. (http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle.html) GIDDENS, Anthony. Modernity and Self-Identity Tribulations of the Self. GOFFMAN, Erving. 1959. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday. HALL, Stuart. 1990. Cultural Identity and Diaspora, in Rutherford, J. (ed). Identity: community, culture, difference. London: Lawrence and Wishart. HALL, Stuart. 2000. Who needs identity?. In duGay, P. (ed) Identity: a reader. London: Sage TURKLE, Sherry. 1995. Life on the Screen. WOODWARD, Kathryn. 1997. Concepts of Identity and Difference. In Identity and Difference. London: Sage.