Final session - HackMD

# Final session # "So much guessing, so little knowing." in-dividual (*who am I?* *where do I end?*) ### (digital Identities) Social identity theory: a) personal identity, b) social identity dialectics of internal (self/group) and external moments (us categorised by others) of identification (Jenkins) different **orders of social-identification** (Jenkins) 1. Individual (own body and mind) 2. Interaction (co-presence between individuals) 3. Institutional : symbolic patterns (not neither of these isolated) # "Maybe it has something to do with all the things that are intertwined" **Interactivity**, Social interactivity (Fornas) vs. technical interactivity , Temporal structure, **Synchronous / asynchronous**, **Social cues**, Storage, Replicability. Reach, Mobility (Baym) through comm people assign **symbolic meanings** to tech -> comms through technology reveal desires and concerns # "the unsocial thing to do is now to not use media" **Symbolic interactionism**: identities as social, interrelated, and processual, produced through communication and interaction with others (Mead) **Non-verbal** and phatic communication (small talk, where the **act** is more important than the content) (Horst and Miller) **anonymity** opens up the possibility of liberation from preconceived societal divisions (gender, race, age, mediatized interaction) ”disembodied identities”: separating self from the **body** (wiht other issues, e.g. lack of legal framework for "lack of bodies") # "Unconsciously I often feel an obligation to be online on facebook, messenger, email, etc." **performativity**, performing for an audience, front/back stage (Goffman) performance suspenden in-between in online environments (Pearson) dissembodied **audiences**: effort to control privacy → imagined/actual audiences (Solove) -- publicness (self-branding-marketing). # "Talking to my Grandma for 5 minutes doesn't feel like consuming media" **ties**: latent ties (Haythornthwaite) strong / weak ties (Granovetter) **networked publics**: imagined communities that emerge as a result of the intersection of people, technology and practice (boyd) "**context collapse**”: collision of self-representations (boyd 2008, Marwick and boyd 2011) Identities perform a different levels of **privacy** (sharing not identical to lack of privacy). Other privacy strategies (e.g. encoding) ”**shared identities**”: local experts, answer people, conversationalists, etc (Welser et al 2007) & lurkers (Goriunova 2017) **self-quantification**/optimisation: a form of self-improvement and a form of self-reflection (Lupton) # "it’s the notifications which decides what I’m going to do on it and not me who decides" **Platforms**: intermediares negotiating between stakeholders with particular audiences, aims, and agendas (Gillespie) **Affordances** (Gibson): perceived (Norman), technological (Gaver), communicative (Hutchby), imagined (Nagy and Neff), vernacular (McVeigh-Schultz and Baym) **Suveillance capitalism**: surplus of data, **profiling**, modification of behaviour (Zuboff) **social surveillance** (Marwick) and accounting of everyday life: **sharing** not an exclusively diigtal practice / not narcissim, but social mediation (Humphreys) ### (digital Ethnography) # "it was difficult for me to be trapped with my own thought" Ties through cultural competence communication (Malinosky) multiple, open, **reflexive, and unorthodox** (Pink) **Situational** (Clarke), **grounded** theory (Glaser and Strauss) # "I somehow feel like I’ve learned more about my media usage by not using media than I did, when I tracked my actual media use, which is really surprising to me" Digital in **day-to-day** life “embedded, embodied, and everyday” (Hine) **Digital as** object, field, and/or (Gomez Cruz) **Internet** as tool, medium, or network of connectivity; place or world; internet as a way of being ### as method **Interpretative** ethnography, intimate/vulnerable, evocative, narratively interesting, multi-voiced, dailogic (Goodall) **Jottings**: write without elaborate rhetoric, intricate metaphors, or complex, suspenseful narration (Emerson) **fieldnotes** >the full fieldnotes tell a coherent, step-by-step story of what was observed (Emerson) # "are the sounds louder than I remember?" **Accounting**: > how these emergent processes and stages unfold rather than attempt to reconstruct them at a later point in light of some final, ultimate interpretation of their meaning (Emerson) **Coding** descriptive, process, in vivo, etc decoding (decipher from data) and encoding ('labeling' data) (Saldaña) ------ ------ ------ # Addiction and boredom # "stay in control of myself" / "not just because I enjoy it, but simply because it’s a habit" # "feel lonely, or – even worse – be bored!"