Girls, Autobiography, Media Gender and Self-Mediation in Digital Economies /

• Main Author: Maguire, Emma (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
• Subjects: Technology in literature.; Humanities-Digital libraries.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Communication.; Social media.; Culture.; Gender.; Literature and Technology/Media.; Digital Humanities.; Contemporary Literature.; Media and Communication.; Social Media.; Culture and Gender.

This book investigates how girls' automedial selves are constituted and consumed as literary or media products in a digital landscape dominated by intimate, though quite public, modes of self-disclosure and pervaded by broader practices of self-branding. In thinking about how girlhood as a pote...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Camgirls: Surveillance and Feminine Embodiment in Lifecasting Practice
• 3. Negotiating the Anti-Girl: Articulating Punk Girlhood in the Online Diary
• 4. Self-Branding and Hotness in the YouTube Video Blogs of Jenna Marbles
• 5. Fangirling as Feminist Auto Assemblage: Tavi Gevinson and Participatory Audienceship
• 6. Sad Asian Girls and Collaborative Auto Assemblage: Mobilising Cross-Platform Collective Life Narratives
• 7. Eyebrows on What?: Girls and Viral Economies
• 8. Hoaxing Instagram: Amalia Ulman Exposes the Tropes of #Instagirlhood
• 9. Conclusion.