TY - JOUR
T1 - Multimodal, multiplex, multispatial
T2 - A network model of the self
AU - Banks, Jaime
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - Contemporary culture finds human experience spread across various digital and physical spaces. Although many scholars embrace derivative perspectives of a distributed self—dramaturgical, multiphrenic, networked—these notions are seldom engaged as empirically testable theories. This article proposes a theoretical model to foster such empirical examination, in which the “self” is not engaged as a node in broader social networks, but taken as a network itself. That is, the self is reframed as a subjectively experienced network of identities that are, themselves, complex assemblages of many different kinds of objects. In this way, the binaries of me/not-me, human/nonhuman, material/immaterial, and digital/physical are unraveled in favor of more precisely identified interrelated agents giving rise to the Self across digital and physical contexts.
AB - Contemporary culture finds human experience spread across various digital and physical spaces. Although many scholars embrace derivative perspectives of a distributed self—dramaturgical, multiphrenic, networked—these notions are seldom engaged as empirically testable theories. This article proposes a theoretical model to foster such empirical examination, in which the “self” is not engaged as a node in broader social networks, but taken as a network itself. That is, the self is reframed as a subjectively experienced network of identities that are, themselves, complex assemblages of many different kinds of objects. In this way, the binaries of me/not-me, human/nonhuman, material/immaterial, and digital/physical are unraveled in favor of more precisely identified interrelated agents giving rise to the Self across digital and physical contexts.
KW - Actor-networks
KW - identity
KW - multiphrenia
KW - multiplicity
KW - networked self
KW - postmodernity
KW - self
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85014973275&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1461444815606616
DO - 10.1177/1461444815606616
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85014973275
VL - 19
SP - 419
EP - 438
JO - New Media and Society
JF - New Media and Society
SN - 1461-4448
IS - 3
ER -