GSWS 318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Online Identity, Web 2.0, Participatory Culture

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 318
• Professor: Eirini Kotsovili

Document Summary

Megastars like beyonc or brad pitt don"t need to maintain twitter account: affiliation, refers to public performance with fans using language, words, cultural symbols and conventions. Inauthenticity: pr practices such as ghostwriting", fake followers and accounts, 2018 nyt report. Authenticity: academic perspectives: frame in terms of real me", no such thing as universal authenticity, relational: what is defined as inauthentic", definitions change over time, symbols and signifiers of authenticity context-dependent. Identity socially and historically constructed: belief in essential true" self challenged, shaped by interactions with people, institutions, expressed via cultural markers, shaped by internalized norms. Identity is shaped by social contexts we actively shape our identity: performative, goffman and front stage/backstage, controlled performance vs. being ourselves. Performing the digital self: web 1. 0 era, clear separation between our online and offline identities, fueled by understanding that internet was a destination". Go online": less expectation that people being themselves.