The cyberself: the self-ing project goes online, symbolic interaction in the digital age Export

@article{2919, abstract = {Juxtaposing symbolic interactionist and postmodern interpretations of cyberself-ing, I bring data to bear on the tensions between these two theoretical stances. I argue that postmodernist accounts are no longer tenable; such studies were based on multi-user domains (MUDs), but generalized to cyberspace. I examine the evolving internet population, which has reached a critical mass of the American population, to demonstrate that MUD users no longer constitute the majority of users. After substantiating this shift in the user base, I elucidate evidence that corroborates the countervailing thesis of socialized' online selves. I argue that using a symbolic interactionist perspective to frame the cyberself-ing project allows us to understand the creation of the cyber I,' me,' and digital generalized other,' as well as the dynamics of interactional cuing online.}, author = {Robinson, Laura}, citeulike-article-id = {2966312}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/1/93}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444807072216}, comment = {February 1, 2007 ---=note-separator=--- The cyberself: the self-ing project goes online, symbolic interaction in the digital age}, doi = {10.1177/1461444807072216}, journal = {New Media \& Society}, keywords = {file-import-08-07-05, goffman, lifelogs, postmodernism, self, symbolic-interactionism, turkle, weblog, weblogs}, number = {1}, pages = {93-110+}, pdf = {internal-pdf://93-1125507840/93.pdf}, posted-at = {2008-07-05 15:28:15}, priority = {0}, title = {The cyberself: the self-ing project goes online, symbolic interaction in the digital age}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444807072216}, volume = {9}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - 2919 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2966312 N2 - Juxtaposing symbolic interactionist and postmodern interpretations of cyberself-ing, I bring data to bear on the tensions between these two theoretical stances. I argue that postmodernist accounts are no longer tenable; such studies were based on multi-user domains (MUDs), but generalized to cyberspace. I examine the evolving internet population, which has reached a critical mass of the American population, to demonstrate that MUD users no longer constitute the majority of users. After substantiating this shift in the user base, I elucidate evidence that corroborates the countervailing thesis of socialized' online selves. I argue that using a symbolic interactionist perspective to frame the cyberself-ing project allows us to understand the creation of the cyber I,' me,' and digital generalized other,' as well as the dynamics of interactional cuing online. IS - 1 JF - New Media & Society TI - The cyberself: the self-ing project goes online, symbolic interaction in the digital age VL - 9 SP - 93-110 KW - file-import-08-07-05 KW - goffman KW - lifelogs KW - postmodernism KW - self KW - symbolic-interactionism KW - turkle KW - weblog KW - weblogs N1 - February 1, 2007 N1 - The cyberself: the self-ing project goes online, symbolic interaction in the digital age AU - Robinson, Laura PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444807072216 ER -