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Social Media & the Self: An Open Reader

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TitleSocial Media & the Self
SubtitleAn Open Reader
ContributorJefferson Pooley(editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.1fc3f80a
Landing pagehttps://mediastudies.press/sms
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Copyrightmultiple
Publishermediastudies.press
Publication placeBethlehem, PA
Published on2021-07-15
Series
  • Open Reader Series vol. 1
  • ISSN Print: 2770-940X
  • ISSN Digital: 2770-940X
ISBN978-1-951399-04-7 (HTML)
Short abstractA web-only reader on social media and the self, selected and ordered with university courses in mind. Each of its component works already carries an open access license, or—in the case of copyrighted items—links to a web version. With a preface and introduction by Jefferson Pooley.
Long abstractSocial Media & the Self is a web-only reader centered on the online performance of identity and curated with university courses in mind. The approach taken is to treat the self on social media as suspended between authenticity and performance. The collection traces the roots of the popular demand for individual self-expression to the early twentieth century. The message, then as now, was that the best way to get ahead is to consciously cultivate an authentic persona. The task, if anything, is more onerous today, with our fingers hovering, and hesitating, over the post button. In a nod to the theatrical context, the collection is divided into “acts,“ five of them, followed by a handful of “encore” readings that speculate on the shareable future. Each of its component works already carries an open access license, or—in the case of copyrighted items—links to a web version. The collection will be updated with new material at least twice a year, in concert with the typical North American academic calendar. Social Media & the Self is edited by Jefferson Pooley.
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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  • SOC052000
  • SOC071000
  • TEC052000
Contents

Preface: The Open Reader

  • Jefferson Pooley

Introduction: Performance and Authenticity

  • Jefferson Pooley

The Zoom Gaze

  • Autumm Caines

The I in the Internet

  • Jia Tolentino

The Self

  • William James

The Looking-Glass Self

  • Charles Horton Cooley

The Genesis of the Self

  • George Herbert Mead

Searching for Oneself on YouTube

  • Claire Balleys
  • Florence Millerand
  • Christine
  • Nina

The Management of Information About Oneself

  • Erving Goffman

Indelicate Communication

  • Erving Goffman

Shape Shifting Across Social Media

  • Brittany I. Davidson
  • Adam N. Joinson

Who Would I Be Without Instagram?

  • Tavi Gevinson

Sudden Amnesia Showed Me the Self Is a Convenient Fiction

  • Steven Hales

I Am Not a Story

  • Galen Strawson

How Smartphone Cameras Changed the Way We Document Our Lives

  • Jane C. Hu

I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget

  • Lauren Goode

‘Personality’ and the Making of Twentieth-Century Culture

  • Warren I. Susman

The Age of Instagram Face

  • Jia Tolentino

The Theory and History of Authenticity

  • Charles Lindholm

The #nofilter Self: The Contest for Authenticity among Social Networking Sites, 2002–2016

  • Meredith Salisbury
  • Jefferson Pooley

Layers of Identity: How to Be “Real” When Everyone Is Watching

  • Crystal Abidin

When Your Authenticity Is an Act, Something’s Gone Wrong

  • Joseph E. Davis

TikTok Face

  • Cat Zhang

“Do I Look Like My Selfie?”: Filters and the Digital-Forensic Gaze

  • Christine Lavrence
  • Carolina Cambre

Gendered Visibility on Social Media: Navigating Instagram’s Authenticity Bind

  • Brooke Erin Duffy
  • Emily Hund

The Promise—and Risk—of a Career in TikTok

  • Lauren Kaori Gurley

Idols of Promotion: The Triumph of Self-Branding in an Age of Precarity

  • Brooke Erin Duffy
  • Jefferson Pooley

Understanding Facebook’s Algorithm Could Change How You See Yourself

  • Alexis Papazoglou

Existence Precedes Likes: How Online Behaviour Defines Us

  • Francisco Mejia Uribe

Personal Panopticons

  • L. M. Sacasas

Mirror of Your Mind

  • Isabel Munson

Beauty Filters Are Changing the Way Young Girls See Themselves

  • Tate Ryan-Mosley

Mediated Superficiality and Misogyny Through Cool on Tinder

  • Jin Lee

“Oh, She’s a Tumblr Feminist”: Exploring the Platform Vernacular of Girls’ Social Media Feminisms

  • Jessalyn Keller

Performing a Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World

  • Mikaela Pitcan
  • Alice E. Marwick
  • danah boyd

“Good Social Media?”: Underrepresented Youth Perspectives on the Ethical and Equitable Design of Social Media Platforms

  • Melissa Brough
  • Ioana Literat
  • Amanda Ikin

Attention Is Not a Resource but a Way of Being Alive to the World

  • Dan Nixon

Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?

  • Joshua Rothman

How Much Can We Afford to Forget, if We Train Machines to Remember?

  • Gene Tracy

Eat Me, Drink Me, Like Me

  • Tara Isabella Burton
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Jefferson Pooley

(editor)
Muhlenberg College
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3674-1930
https://jeffpooley.com

Jefferson Pooley is professor of media and communication at Muhlenberg College.

UK registered social enterprise and Community Interest Company (CIC).

Company registration 14549556

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