Production of the 'Self' in the Digital Age

• Main Author: Ibrahim, Yasmin (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.
• Subjects: Social media.; Digital media.; Humanities-Digital libraries.; Culture.; Social Media.; Digital/New Media.; Digital Humanities.; Global/International Culture.

This book investigates the relationship between the self and screen in the digital age, and examines how the notion of the self is re-negotiated and curated online. The chapters examine the production of the self in postmodernity through digital platforms by employing key concepts of ubiquity, the e...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Coalescing the Mirror and the Screen
• 2. Banal Imaging; Domesticity and the Everyday
• 3. Self, Screen and the Formation of Desire
• 4. Self and the Production of Value online
• 5. Self and its Strategies for Immortality. .