Playful embodiment: Body and identity performance on the Internet
This paper discusses practices related to the presentation of the body on the Internet. We focus on the relation between body and identity performance in online interactions, comparing identity play in the early stages of text-based Internet and in current multimodal networking technologies. We argu...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2010 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
| Repositorio: | O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/104326 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10609/104326 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | body identity Internet cos identitat cuerpo identidad Identity (Psychology) Identitat (Psicologia) Identidad (Psicología) |
| Sumario: | This paper discusses practices related to the presentation of the body on the Internet. We focus on the relation between body and identity performance in online interactions, comparing identity play in the early stages of text-based Internet and in current multimodal networking technologies. We argue that, while earlier practices were characterized by playing on anonymity, people are now engaged in a 'playful embodiment' process in relation to the production, diffusion and consumption of people's images of their own bodies through the Web. The empirical work is based on the analysis of Spanish and Latin American (photo) blogs that focus mainly on the body. |
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