Image, Identity and New Media Introduction. Patrick Prax

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1 Image, Identity and New Media Introduction Patrick Prax 1

2 Who are you? Name Country of Origin Educational background Majoring in Career plan 2

3 Who am I? Patrick Prax, PhD in Media and Communication since 10/09 Read IMCS in 2007/08 Media Science Main interest in Computer Game Communities and Society 3

4 Laurent Di Filippo Sociology of Science Nordic Studies Media Studies 4

5 The Topic of the Course Image Identity New Media New Media and Gender Postmodernism 5

6 Books Gauntlett, David : Media, gender and identity : an introduction New ed. : - London : Routledge, xii, 317 s. ISBN: (pbk.) Libris: McQuail, Denis : McQuail's Mass Communication Theory. 5.ed. : - London : SAGE, 2005 ISBN: Chapter 6 Sturken, Marita; Cartwright, Lisa : Practices of looking : an introduction to visual culture 2nd edition : - Oxford University Press, s. ISBN: Web.studies. Gauntlett, David; Horsley, Ross 2. ed. : - London : Arnold, xiii, 327 s. ISBN: (pbk.) Libris: Additional Reading: about 100 pages 6

7 This Course Lectures, 7 5 Patrick 2 Laurent Seminars, 3 Presentation of Group Work Final Group Work Pitch of idea, opposition Feedback Session 7

8 Grading Seminar attendance and participation, presentation and submitted paper If you need to miss a seminar tell me ahead of time! Final Group Work 30% Content 30% Use of Theory and Literature 40% Independent Thinking, Arguments and Discussion U, G, and VG In ECTS VG is A,B G is C-E 8

9 The Groups 3-4 people Make the groups yourself Try to have as few people from your home country in your group as possible Tip: Write together 9

10 I sent out a welcome last week. If you DID NOT get it please leave your address here AND sent me a mail. Patrick.Prax@im.uu.se 10

11 LastName, FirstName - Group - Categorization Course now on Introduction Theory Method Result Conclusion Discussion Further Research Literature list Annex Studentportalen 11

12 Image, Identity and New Media The History of Identity and New Media Patrick Prax 12

13 Definitions: Identity Laurent will talk more (a lot more) about this later Working definition:? Media the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information or data (see McQail, 2000) New Media? 13

14 Identity 1. The collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is definitively recognizable or known 2. The set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group. 3. The quality or condition of being the same as something else. 4. The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; individuality. 14

15 Definitions: Identity Laurent will talk more (a lot more) about this later Working definition:? Media the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information or data (see McQail, 2000) New Media? 15

16 What should we consider as new media? Let us make a definition! Include all the cases and exclude everything else Useful to work with (has a purpose, in our case social science research; can be political) Suggestions? Just make a sentence and give us something to play with 16

17 New Media, what is it? What is a New Medium? Internet? Is internet a platform? Games? Digital games at least? Mobile Phones? Not necessary digital? Design? User participation? Many-to-many? 17

18 Sherry Turkle, 2004, How Computers change the way we think Privacy Power Point Symulations bpage/turkle_how_computers_change_way_ we_think.pdf 18

19 Timeline Internet Cyber- enthusiasm Digital Tourism Identity Play Gender-bending The computer as identity-building tool ICTS as identity-building Social Networks 19

20 My view on the timeline of Identity in the Web You can (should?) argue against this. Laurent hates it 20

21 Bibi van den Berg, 2008, Self, Script, and Situation: identity in a world of ICTs. The Future of Identity in the Information Society We may conclude that the emergence of information and communication technologies, particularly the more recent development of mobile technologies, has led to a tremendous expansion of the possible definitions we may use to come to grips with role choices in each situation. Since the amount of roles to choose from is destabilized and increased in each specific situation, the bandwidth for choosing stretches as well, thereby creating a double effect: on the one hand individuals get more freedom and flexibility to choose roles in given situations. This means they may choose more freely what they want to do (and in turn, by effect, ultimately who they are). At the same time, however, this places an ever-bigger burden of choice on these individuals. The sum total of all the roles we may play in life is enlarged, thus dramatically expanding the necessity for human beings of merging the vast amount of separate roles they play into some form of a combined self. ICTs thus function both as mechanisms of liberation yet at the same time also helps corrode coherent and simple senses of self. Therefore, it is too simplistic to view the effects of ICTs on situations as good or bad their complexity calls for a more nuanced analysis. 21

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23 What is defining you? Marker of one s self importance Only positive status upgrades Write yourself into existence (or can you be without?) Always selling and presenting oneself 23

24 Typing yourself into existence or Facebook s issues Break-ups and Facebook Work and Facebook Privacy and Facebook Birth and Facebook Death and Facebook what else? 24

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26 Reading: Follow the links that will be online to the articles used in the lecture and take a look around 26