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Identity Technologies Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography William L. Andrews General Editor Identity Technologies Constructing the Self Online k Edited by Anna Poletti and Julie Rak The University of Wisconsin Press Publication of this volume has been made possible, in part, through support from the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 2014 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Identity technologies : constructing the self online / edited by Anna Poletti and Julie Rak. pages cm — (Wisconsin studies in autobiography) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN978-0-299-29644-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN978-0-299-29643-8 (e-book) 1. Autobiography. 2. Online identities. 3. Identity (Psychology) and mass media. 4. Online social networks. 5. Internet—Social aspects. I. Poletti, Anna, editor. II. Rak, Julie, 1966–, editor. III. Series: Wisconsin studies in autobiography. CT25.I34 2014 302.3—dc23 2013011469 Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Digital Dialogues Anna PolettiandJulie Rak 3 Foundations Beyond Anonymity, or Future Directions for Internet Identity Research Helen Kennedy 25 Cyberrace Lisa Nakamura 42 Becoming and Belonging: Performativity, Subjectivity, and the Cultural Purposes of Social Networking Rob Cover 55 Virtually Me: A Toolbox about Online Self-Presentation Sidonie SmithandJulia Watson 70 Identity Affordances Adultery Technologies Melissa Gregg 99 Facebook and Coaxed Affordances Aimée Morrison 112 Archiving Disaster and National Identity in the Digital Realm: The September 11 Digital Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank Courtney Rivard 132 Life Bytes: Six-Word Memoir and the Exigencies of Auto/tweetographies Laurie McNeill 144 Mediated Communities Negotiating Identities/Queering Desires: Coming Out Online and the Remediation of the Coming-Out Story Mary L. Gray 167 “Treat Us Right!”: Digital Publics, Emerging Biosocialities, and the Female Complaint Olivia Banner 198 Cyber-Self: In Search of a Lost Identity? Alessandra Micalizzi 217 Homeless Nation: Producing Legal Subjectivities through New Media Suzanne Bouclin 229 Reflections Autobiography and New Communication Tools Philippe Lejeune, translated by Katherine Durnin 247 The Blog as Experimental Setting: An Interview with Lauren Berlant Anna PolettiandJulie Rak 259 Contributors 273 Index 279 Acknowledgments We absolutely must thank Bill Andrews, who invited us to begin this project, supported us through it, and encouraged us to think big. We also thank Raphael Kadushin, Matthew Cosby, and the rest of the team at the University of Wisconsin Press for their stewardship of the project over many years. Thanks to the editorial board of the press for their suggestions and support. We thank Katherine Durnin for her sensitive translation of Philippe Lejeune’s work. We also thank Lauren Berlant, who has been unfailingly supportive, provoc - ative, generous, and hospitable to us as individuals and as a team. Thanks also to Nicole Matthews, an Australian ally for the interdisciplinary nature of the project. Thanks to Susan Brown, Linda Warley, and Aimée Morrison for their assistance early in the process. As always, we thank our colleagues in the Inter- national Association for Biography and Autobiography (IABA) for their enthu- siasm. We thank Arpit Gutpa, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, the original inventors of Skype, without whom this project would have been impossible. Julie particularly wants to thank Danielle Fuller for her constant encourage- ment, wisdom, and love throughout this project, and Mr. T. for being support- ive in the feline sense. Anna would like to thank Johannes Klabbers for his technical troubleshoot- ing, humor, and optimism. She also thanks Amanda Kerley, and Stripe. Anna received financial assistance for participation in the project from the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, who provide excellent support for early career researchers. Julie received support from the Faculty of Arts at the Uni- versity of Alberta. We thank all our contributors for their work and their patience. Thanks par- ticularly to our contributors who graciously gave permission to reprint essays in this collection. vii viii Acknowledgments “Beyond Anonymity, or Future Directions for Internet Identity Research,” by Helen Kennedy, was first published in New Media and Society, Sage Publica- tions, vol. 8, no. 6 (2006): 859–76. Reproduced with permission and copyedited for inclusion in this volume. “Cyberrace,” by Lisa Nakamura, was first published in PMLA, Publications of the Modern Languages Association of America, vol. 123, no. 5 (2008): 1673–2. Reproduced with permission. “Negotiating Identities/Queering Desires: Coming Out Online and the Re- med iation of the Coming-Out Story,” by Mary L. Gray, was first published in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, International Communication Association, vol. 14 (2009): 1162–89. Reproduced with permission. Identity Technologies
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