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# Final session

# <span style="color:#884dff;font-family:sans;font-weight: 300">"So much guessing, so little knowing."</span>

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)

# <span style="color:#884dff;font-family:sans;font-weight: 300">"Maybe it has something to do with all the things that are intertwined"</span>

**Interactivity**, Social interactivity (Fornas) vs. technical interactivity <!-- ant-->, Temporal structure, **Synchronous / asynchronous**<!--Synchronicity: who is a fast replyier ? To everyone? Does something changes here? What about IRL?-->, **Social cues**, Storage, Replicability. Reach, Mobility (Baym)

through comm people assign **symbolic meanings** to tech -> comms through technology reveal desires and concerns

# <span style="color:#884dff;font-family:sans;font-weight: 300">"the unsocial thing to do is now to not use media"</span>

**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")

# <span style="color:#884dff;font-family:sans;font-weight: 300">"Unconsciously I often feel an obligation to be online on facebook, messenger, email, etc."</span>

**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).

# <span style="color:#884dff;font-family:sans;font-weight: 300">"Talking to my Grandma for 5 minutes doesn't feel like consuming media"</span>

**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)

# <span style="color:#884dff;font-family:sans;font-weight: 300">"it’s the notifications which decides what I’m going to do on it and not me who decides"</span>

**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)

# <span style="color:#884dff;font-family:sans;font-weight: 300">"it was difficult for me to be trapped with my own thought"</span>


Ties through cultural competence communication (Malinosky)

multiple, open, **reflexive, and unorthodox** (Pink)

**Situational** (Clarke), **grounded** theory (Glaser and Strauss)

# <span style="color:#884dff;font-family:sans;font-weight: 300">"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"</span>

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)

# <span style="color:#884dff;font-family:sans;font-weight: 300">"are the sounds louder than I remember?"</span>

**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)

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# Addiction and boredom


# <span style="color:#884dff;font-family:sans;font-weight: 300">"stay in control of myself" / "not just because I enjoy it, but simply because it’s a habit"</span>

# <span style="color:#884dff;font-family:sans;font-weight: 300">"feel lonely, or – even worse – be bored!"</span>


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