Digital Identities
Chapter
Author(s) / editor(s):
Grant Bollmer
Year: 2025
Abstract:
This chapter reviews several understandings of how digital media intersect with identity, be it personal identity or cultural identity. It describes how identity is inherently intersectional—meaning at the intersection of a range of different categories and subject positions—and digital media both influence these intersections as well as call into question the very nature of self-consciousness and personal experience, both of which are foundational for any subjective sense of selfhood and identity. It also draws out some of the problems with a ‘disembodied’ sense of identity, which has long been linked with identity online, as well as the utopian potentials still associated with the ability for digital media to ‘disembody’ or reinvent the possibilities of embodied identity.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111316857-023
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