Communication and culture Bisexuality Social media--Political aspects
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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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
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