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Title: DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 7


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Digital Culture and Sociology
  • Identity

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about today
  • Conceptual introduction
  • Dibbell, Julian. A rape in Cyberspace.
  • Giddens, Anthony. Modernity and Self-Identity
    Tribulations of the Self.
  • Turkle, Sherry. 1995. Life on the Screen.
  • SEMINAR Match-making session

identity
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what is identity?
Woodward
  • Why is everyone so interested on identity at the
    moment?
  • Do the words crisis of identity mean anything
    to you?
  • Why do people invest in identity positions?
  • Movement no question to national to personal
    (Freud) to modern crisis (Giddens) to postmodern
    dissolutions (Turkle?)

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essentialist identity
Woodward
  • Everybody from a country, ethnia, etc. shares a
    clear authentic set of characteristics with do
    not alter across time.
  • Often claims of common history or culture
  • Tied to the physical first territory, later
    body i.e. racial or sexual identity
  • Disrupted by globalization, inmigration,
    break-ups such as USSR...

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imaginary identity
Hall
  • When we claim the past as an identity we
    reconstruct it (Caribbeanness)
  • Becoming
  • Difference, i.e. how Martinique is and is not
    French
  • Main point we are not only positioned by
    identity, we can also position ourselves and
    reconstruct and transform historical identities.

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group identities
Woodward
  • Bourdieu- individuals integrated in fields
    families, peer groups, work, etc. Each has a
    material context and symbolic resources.
  • We are the same person but have different roles
    (Goffman)
  • Thomas Højrup- Life Mode analysis people, same
    country, qualitatively different cultures, or
    life modes, each of which has its own specific
    material conditions, a specific praxis and a
    corresponding ideology.
  • Giddens modernity threatens self-identity (or
    positive hypercomplexity Qvortrup)

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Identity keywords
Woodward
  • Identities are produced at particular points in
    time (i.e. hippies, womens liberation movements)
  • parameters cut accross each other class,
    country, religion, gender...
  • Difference as essential to meaning, dichotomies,
    ex. Cixous activity/passivity, culture/nature,
    father/mother, intelligible/sensitive...
    Important divisions not equally weighted
  • Subjectivity sense of self, then we adopt
    identity

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Identity keywords II
Woodward
  • Althusser- Interpellation, how subjects are
    recruited into subject positions through
    recognizing themselves, yes, its me.
    Unconscious process
  • The unsconscious origin in Freud, developed by
    Lacan in relation to identity
  • Lacan unified human subject is a myth, children
    learn, entry into languagesubjectivity, entry of
    the fathersubconscious birth, phallus as first
    signifier, girls and boys positioned differently.

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complementary bibliography
  • ALTHUSSER, Louis. 1971. Lenin and Philosophy and
    Other Essays. London New Left Books.
  • CIXOUS, Hélène. 1975. Sorties In MARKS, 1980.
    French Feminisms an anthology. Amherst The
    University of Massachussetts Press.
  • GOFFMAN, Erving. 1959. The Presentation of Self
    in Everyday Life. New York Doubleday.
  • HALL, Stuart. 1990. Cultural Identity and
    Diaspora, in Rutherford, J. (ed). Identity
    community, culture, difference. London Lawrence
    and Wishart.
  • HøJRUP, Thomas. 1983. On the Concept of
    Life-Mode. A Formspecifying Mode of Analysis
    Applied to Contemporary Western Europe.
    Ethnologia Scandinavica.
  • LACAN, Jacques. 1977. Écrits a selection.
    London Tavistock.
  • WOODWARD, Kathryn. 1997. Concepts of Identity
    and Difference. In Identity and Difference.
    London Sage.

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