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Dissertation
Technologies of Visibility: New Mediations of Bisexuality
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Drexel University
May 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/etd-6851
Abstract
The Internet, which was touted early on as a space of great potential for anonymity and exploration where visibility could be masked, here becomes the place where users try to make the perceived invisible 'visible' through digital mediation. Digital mediation, a process of enacting forms of identity-like race, gender, and sexual orientation-underscores both the non-essentialism of identity as well as its hybridity and fluidity. Digital technologies contribute to the complex and multidimensional processes that shape subjectivities. Participants discuss the complexities of an identity that appears more visible in online environments than it does offline. Digital spaces provide particularly useful environments for participants to negotiate issues of (in)visibility through digital mediation as they employ technologies of visibility through daily posts, pics, videos, and discourse in which bisexuality as a subject position is discursively (re)produced, articulated, defended, and desired.
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Details
- Title
- Technologies of Visibility
- Creators
- Nora Madison - DU
- Contributors
- Wesley Shumar (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- vii, 184 pages
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts and Sciences; Communication; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 6851; 991014632587704721