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CULTURAL STUDIES / AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GAY & LESBIAN INTEREST
From Facebook to Twitter and beyond: How do we create identities
in cyberspace?
Identity Technologies
is a substantial contribution to the fields of autobiography
studies, digital studies, and new media studies, exploring the many new modes
of self-expression and self-fashioning that have arisen in conjunction with Web
2.0, social networking, and the increasing saturation of wireless communication
devices in everyday life.
Identity Technologies
explores the various ways that individuals construct their
identities on the Internet, while also offering historical perspectives on ways that
technologies intersect with identity creation. Bringing together scholarship about
the construction of the self by new and established authors from the fields of digi-
tal media and auto/biography studies, this volume presents new case studies and
fresh theoretical questions emphasizing the methodological challenges inherent
in scholarly attempts to account for and analyze the rise of identity technologies.
The collection also includes an interview with Lauren Berlant on her use of blogs
as research and writing tools.
Anna Poletti
(near right) is a lec-
turer in literary studies at Monash
University, where she is codirector
of the Centre for the Book. She is the
author of
Intimate Ephemera: Reading
Young Lives in Australia Zine Culture
.
Julie Rak
(far right) is a professor
of English and film studies at the
University of Alberta in Canada. She
is the author of
Boom! Manufactur-
ing Memoir for Popular Markets
and
Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Auto-
biographical Discourse
.
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
JANUARY
LC: 2013011469 CT
312 PP. 6 × 9
E-BOOK $24.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-29643-8
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
William L. Andrews, Series Editor
“
Identity Technologies
rectifies a gap in
autobiography studies by creating
a comprehensive foundation from
which we can theorize identity in
the Web 2.0 world of the twenty-
first century. It makes a substantial
contribution to the field of digital
media and communications
while significantly impacting
conceptualizations of text and
definitions of narrative.”
—Ricia Anne
Chansky, editor of
a/b: Auto/Biography
Studies
Of re l at ed int e re s t
Trevor J. Blank
The Last Laugh
chronicles how and why
new media have become a central locus
for creating and disseminating new kinds
of folklore.
PUBLISHED JUNE 2013
LC: 2012032669 GR 188 PP. 6 × 9
12 B/W ILLUS.
E-BOOK $19.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-29203-4
Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World
Johannes Klabbers
Carolyn Sale
