Practices of Networked Identity

Schmidt, Jan­-Hinrik

doi:10.1002/9781118321607.ch24

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“…Similar to the notion of a 'personal public' (Schmidt 2013), the concept of a micropublic is one that takes into account the practices of social media such as sharing, tagging, and mediated expression in the forms of personal images, memes, likes, and dislikes. The intercommunication between micro-public activities occur as part of the interpersonal communication of the self, where self-mediations are linked to self-promotional activity across multiple platforms, sites, and services (Marshall 2015).…”

Section: Collective Dimension Of Personamentioning

confidence: 99%

Five Dimensions of Online Persona

2017

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Before Facebook, Twitter, and most of the digital media platforms that now form routine parts of our online lives, Jay Bolter (2000) anticipated that online activities would reshape how we understand and produce identity: a 'networked self', he noted, 'is displacing Cartesian printed self as a cultural paradigm ' (2000, p. 26). The twenty-first century has not only produced a proliferation and mass popularisation of platforms for the production of public digital identities, but also an explosion of scholarship investigating the relationship between such identities and technology. These approaches have mainly focussed on the relations between humans and their networks of other human connections, often neglecting the broader implications of what personas are and might be, and ignoring the rise of the non-human as part of social networks. In this introductory essay, we seek to both trace the work done so far to explore subjectivity and the public presentation of the self via networked technologies, and contribute to these expanding accounts by providing a brief overview of what we consider to be five important dimensions of an online persona. In the following, we identify and explicate the five dimensions of persona as public, mediatised, performative, collective and having intentional value and, while we acknowledge that these dimensions are not exhaustive or complete, they are certainly primary. KEY NODES OF RESEARCHThe scope of research in this field is wide and varied, fruitfully informed by multiple disciplinary perspectives. Here we trace only a handful of scholars and concepts, focusing in particular on work that is foundational or influential in our formulations of the dimensions of online persona. Harrison Rainie and Barry Wellman (2012), for example, advance the notion of 'networked individualism', which helps to acknowledge and account for the connections between online activity and the formation of subjectivity. They remind us that communication technologies, media platforms, and digital services are not isolated objects or discrete entities, but are voraciously incorporated into the lives of individuals as part of the extant identity assemblage that is undergoing continuous revision, updates, and patching as we form connections and exchange information with other people and other systems. Zizi Papacharissi's (2010) media and communication perspective presents us with another elaboration of the 'networked self', a term which she uses to indicate the construction of a subjective performance across multiple and simultaneous streams of social awareness that expands autonomy, potentially reduces agency, and which requires constant self-surveillance and monitoring.

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Section: Collective Dimension Of Personamentioning

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Five Dimensions of Online Persona

2017

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“…The sense of community identity has an essential role in supporting the formation and existence of community (Kendall, 2011). Similarly, Erikson (1959) said, "developing identity and finding out "who you are and whom you want to be" is one of the key developmental tasks in modern societies" (in Schmidt, 2013). It means the construction of community identity is a significant part of the community"s sustainability.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…The term "networked identity" provides the possibility to capture the complex relations between online and offline life (Ryberg & Larsen, 2008). Furthermore, Schmidt (2013) argued: "Identity relies on both personal and social cues, and as networked identitywhich is formed and performed in different mediated communication spacesit can display various degrees of temporal stability, consistency, and recognizability" (p. 369). Schmidt's (2007) explained three frameworks of networked identity which consist of: 1.…”

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Exploring Networked Identities of Indonesian Hijabers

Pramiyanti¹

2019

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This paper examines the networked identities of the Indonesian hijabers (a term for hijab-wearing woman who is fashion conscious). This study was undertaking in-depth interviews and participant-observations towards twenty-six hijabers who are actively taken part as a committee in the hijab communities. The term networked identity has been developed to adjust how community represents identity in the internet era. Most of the communities consider the importance of dynamic interactions and communication in the construction of networked identities. They mostly use Instagram for external communication channel along with WhatsApp and Line for internal communication channel. These hijabers consciously believe on their identities should be representing the images of pious Muslimah (a term for Muslim woman). Additionally, they also represent and communicate their networked identities as active and modern Muslim women that generate new figures of Indonesian young Muslim women.

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“…Recent research has shown that performing and constituting identities online is strongly socially entangled (Marwick, 2013;J.-H. Schmidt, 2013), iterative, productive and interpellated (Thiel-Stern, 2012). While identities have always been constituted socially and collaboratively (Bourdieu, 1972;Goffman, 1959), the ways, how, and where these practices take place have transformed: social realities are increasingly constructed and organized within specific net-worked media logics (Klinger & Svensson, 2015), which emerge in individualized, networked and prod-used content and practices (Klinger & Svensson, 2015).…”

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Showing/Sharing: Analysing Visual Communication from a Praxeological Perspective

Schreiber

2017

MaC

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This contribution proposes a methodological framework for empirical research into visual practices on social media. The framework identifies practices, pictures and platforms as relevant dimensions of analysis. It is mainly developed within, and is compatible with qualitative, interpretive approaches which focus on visual communication as part of everyday personal communicative practices. Two screenshots from Instagram and Facebook are introduced as empirical examples to investigate collaborative practices of meaning-making relating to pictures on social media. While social media seems to augment reflexive, processual practices of negotiating identities, visual media, in particular, amps up aesthetic, ambivalent and embodied dimensions within these practices.

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Practices of Networked Identity

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Five Dimensions of Online Persona

Five Dimensions of Online Persona

Exploring Networked Identities of Indonesian Hijabers

Showing/Sharing: Analysing Visual Communication from a Praxeological Perspective

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