Dear Colleagues
we have the pleasure to announce our cfp for our panel Changing
Features? Performing the Self in Digital Culture at SIEF Congress 2019
in Santiago de Compostela/Spain with the Working Group Digital
Ethnology and Folklore. We are looking forward to your proposals.
Deadline: 15 October 2018.
https://nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2019/conferencesuite.php/panels/7231
Best, Fatma Sagir
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Changing Features? Performing the Self in Digital Culture [SIEF WG
Digital Ethnology and Folklore] [P+R]
Convenors
Fatma Sagir (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Robert Glenn Howard (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Short abstract
With the emergence of the selfie and other digital opportunities to
upload images and videos of oneself, the performativity of the self is
in transformation. This panel will explore the digital self in everyday
life as the locus for the dynamic interactions between technology,
users, and audience.
Long abstract
Long before the emergence of Instagram and YouTube as digital platforms
for self-presentation and 'self-re-presentation' (Thumim 2015), Sherry
Turkle's The Second Self (1984) explored the question how computers and
technology change our view of ourselves by recognizing computers had
begun shape our social lives. Today, not only our attitude towards
technology in our everyday lives seems to be profoundly changed but
also our understanding and the presentation of ourselves in digital
culture is shifting.
From soup to spa, digital culture shares everything of everyday life.
Objects, spaces and people are constantly being documented. Through
these practices, a huge global market has emerged. Digital culture
offers a space to position the user's image, to arrange elements of
everyday life as if props for the performance of selves. Erving
Goffman's ideas on the presentation of the self derive from the world
of theatre, where stage, actor and performance emerge inseparably
together. Taking perspective to the digital age emphasises the dynamics
between technology, users, and audience.
This panel seek to explore questions such as:
-What does the constant documentation of everyday life do to the self?
-Are private lives different from public lives, when the private is
made public through "broadcasting" from spaces that are generally
considered private, such as the bedroom?
-How does the digital in digital culture support these exposures of the
self?
We invite paper presentations (15-20 min) from different fields and
disciplines. We are open to a variety of methods, theoretical
approaches and topics.
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Dr Fatma Sagir
Cultural Anthropology
Institut für Kulturanthropologie/
Europäische Ethnologie
Maximilianstr. 15
79100 Freiburg i.Br.
Tel +49 761 203 3357
http://www.kaee.uni-freiburg.de/personen/wimi/sagir
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