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Identities Online
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Becoming | Butler understands the notion of 'selfhood' not as a defined, complete self that we work towards in our life, but rather as something that is constantly in a state of becoming. |
| Biopolitics | Foucault's philosophy that the 'body' is politicised. |
| Enculturalisation | The process of learning or being taught the ways of a particular culture (consciously or otherwise). |
| Interpellation | Refers to the idea that we can be 'civilised' into civil subjects by society, i.e. that we are enculturalised to accept the common sense values or hegemony within a particular culture. |
| Flux, mutability, fluidity | All of these words resist the idea that our identity is fixed and singular. Instead they recognise the our presentation of 'self' is constantly changable. |
| Hegemony / False Consciousness | Values and beliefs established as 'common sense' within a particular culture. |
| Identities | Rather than using the word 'Identity', scholars like Goffman and Butler recognise that we perform different versions of our 'self' depending on the cultural and social context in which we are in. |
| Narrative | A coherent story we develop over time that makes our sense of self intelligable to others. |
| Network morphology | The form and structure of a network. In terms of thinking about identities, we might consider this in relation to the networks we form around our self (both offline and online!). |
| Performativity | This is a key idea in Butler's work: the self is performative, presented by citations and repetitions of given norms, categories, stereotypes, labels and expressions (or indeed purposeful resistance of such norms). |
| Relationality | How we relate to others: humans, nonhumans and environments. |
| Self | The construct of 'I' that I present to others and how I recognise myself as an 'I'. |
| Self-surveillance | The act of watching oneself. |
| Sign-vehicles | The 'codes', such as gestures, body languge, clothing etc., that we use to express something to others. In the sense of this week's topic: that we use to express a sense of self. |
| Sousveillance | The act of watching others, particularly when you are not a figure of authority. I.e. if you are a citizen and watching other citizen's behaviour. |
| Surveillance | The act of an authority, such as a State or an organisation, watching people. |
| Web 1.0 | The internet before social media, which was mostly text-based and communication with others was largely on forums. Websites were more static and tended purely to direct information at us. |
| Web 2.0 | The age of the internet that is all about sharing and circulation: social media. |
| Discourse | ways of constituting knowledge, together with the social practices, forms of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in such knowledges and relations between them. |
Created by:
Victoria Grace Walden
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