Zusammenfassung
- Was Call For Papers — On the Move: Performativity, Identity and Cultural Practice in Digital Culture
- Wann to (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
- Wo Royal Anthropological Institute with British Academy
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Beschreibung
The performativity of the self is in transformation through new practices of presenting and representing the self, such as the selfie and other technology-based opportunities that enables to upload images and videos of oneself to a social media platform such as Instagram or YouTube. However, long before social media, Sherry B. Turkle's The Second Self (1984) explored the question how computers and technology change our view of ourselves by recognising computers had begun to shape our social lives. Today, not only our attitude towards technology has profoundly changed but also our understanding and presentation of ourselves in digital culture is shifting. Social Media has become an archive of human knowledge including discourse and development on every aspect of our lives while offering visibility, on-screen diversity and representation to those underrepresented or ignored by traditional media or society in general. Digital culture offers a tool and a space to position the user's image, their imagination of the present, the past and the future, to arrange elements of everyday life as if props for the performance of selves.
This panel seeks to explore questions such as:
How does digital culture effect the performativity of the self?
Does mobility in digital culture lead to changes in habitus, social norms and cultural practices?
How does methodology and field-work evolve through digital culture?
We welcome paper presentations (15-20 min) from different fields and disciplines. We are open to a variety of methods, theoretical approaches and topics. cfp closes 08 January 2020. Please submit your proposal via the conference website https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2020#8333
