Social networking and identity
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Authors
Barker, Rachel
Issue Date
2011
Type
Book chapter
Language
en
Keywords
Cyberspace , Virtual self (Technoself) , Social networks , Virtual communities (virtual setting or virtual stage) , Blogging communities , Identity
Alternative Title
Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society
Abstract
The realisation that social networks in cyberspace create a different virtual setting where a Technoself can be created by the way an individual shape their self (body and identity) to their own as well as society’s liking, elicits a notion that there was once either an ideal era of bliss or a Utopian promise of universal self-realisation. From a communicative perspective, this chapter propagates how social networks and identity are consequences of the accelerating rate of change and the subsequent ‘cyber revolution’.
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Citation
Barker, R. 2013. Social networking and identity, Chapter 26 in: The Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society. IGI-Global (www.igi-global.com/ijt). Editor: R Luppicini, Editor, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Publisher
IGI Global
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9781466622111