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Author Thumim, Nancy, 1974- author.

Title Self-representation and digital culture / Nancy Thumim
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 205 pages)
Contents Introduction: Self-Representation and Digital Culture -- Histories of Self-Representation -- Mediation -- Broadcasters -- Museums and Art Worlds -- Self-Representation Online -- Self-Representation, Digital Culture and Genre
Summary Taking a close look at ordinary people 'telling their own story', Nancy Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums. Self-Representation and Digital Culture addresses the institutional contexts of production, technology and form of the texts, and the point of view of those who represent themselves. This highly original research examines how contradictory and widely different politics inform and shape examples of 'speaking for oneself'. Thumim argues that analysis and theorization of the activity of self-representation is vital for media, communication and cultural studies at a time when examples of this genre both surround us and appear, at first glance, to all be alike
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Self-presentation in mass media.
Digital media -- Social aspects
Media studies.
Cultural studies.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Media Studies.
Digital media -- Social aspects
Self-presentation in mass media
Verhalen.
Reality-TV.
Media studies.
Cultural studies.
Media Studies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137265135
1137265132