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Julia Watson "Getting a Digital Life: Self-Presentation in Online Environments"

Julia Watson
March 31, 2014
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Hagerty Hall 451 conference room

Please join the Department of Comparative Studies as Julia Watson addresses: "Getting a Digital Life: Self-Presentation in Online Environments" at 1pm in Hagerty 451. 

Digital environments situate subjects as assemblages of surfaces, networks, archives, nodes, and avatars in social media sites that are inescapably relational and interactive. Exploring key concepts in the contents, coordinates, and categories of self- presentation, such as archive, memory, identity, authenticity, branding, and quantification, points up how “self” is resituated as a distributed subjectivity across shifting relationships and ideological investments and suggests provocative questions about the possibilities of agency for virtual “I’s.”