Girls, Autobiography, Media : Gender and Self-Mediation in Digital Economies /
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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in life writing.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: Girls, Autobiography, Media; Girlhood and Reading Autobiography; The Contribution of Girls and Young Women to Digital Autobiography; Girls, Women, and Auto/Biography Studies; Youth and Femininity in the Contemporary Digital Landscape; Automedia: A Tool and a Label; Works Cited; Chapter 2: Camgirls: Surveillance and Feminine Embodiment in Lifecasting Practice; Visibility, Mediation, and Life Narrative: Reading Camgirl Lifecasts from the Turn of the Millennium; Problems with Access: Digital Archaeology?
- Autobiographical Media and the WebcamJennifer Ringley: Authenticity and the "Ordinary" Celebrity; Ana Voog: Art Practice and Feminine Embodiment; Playing with the Gaze: Automedial Experiments in Subversion, Control, and Visibility; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 3: Negotiating the Anti-Girl: Articulating Punk Girlhood in the Online Diary; "There Are No Cool Girls, Only Cool Anti-girls": Punk Girlhood at the Turn of the Millennium; Countering the Hegemony of Punk: The Zine and the Online Diary; Conclusion; Works Cited
- Chapter 4: Self-Branding and Hotness in the YouTube Video Blogs of Jenna MarblesSelf-Branding: Community, Commerce, and the Self on YouTube; Negotiating Girlhood and Competing for an Audience; Jenna Marbles: Blogger, Entertainer ... Hot Girl?; Branding across Platforms: Jenna Marbles Blog; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 5: Fangirling as Feminist Auto Assemblage: Tavi Gevinson and Participatory Audienceship; "You Think You Have Depth? No, You Just Have Hormones":1 Who Has a Problem with Fangirls?; Searching for a Definition of Fangirl: Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary
- The Self as "a Set of Eyes": Fangirling as Creative, Autobiographical PracticeConfiguring the Rookie Community as a Space for Self-Mediation; "Most of My 'Big Big World' Is a Composite of the Worlds of Others": Fangirling and Auto Assemblage; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 6: Sad Asian Girls and Collaborative Auto Assemblage: Mobilising Cross-Platform Collective Life Narratives; Speaking Back, Auto Assemblage, Collaboration; Scripts and Speaking Back: "Have You Eaten?"; Embodiment and Augmented Revolution: Now More Than Ever: Put Asian Femmes in White Cubes
- RIP SAG: The Sad Asian Girls Website as an Archive and a MemorialWorks Cited; Chapter 7: Eyebrows on What? Girls and Viral Economies; Do It for the Vine (Not for the Money); The Question of Cultural Ownership and Appropriation; Everyday Activism and Newman's Self-Brand; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 8: Hoaxing Instagram: Amalia Ulman Exposes the Tropes of #Instagirlhood; Instagirls, Self-Branding, and Authenticity; Female Narcissism: A Strategy for Inscribing Cohesive Selves; But Is It Autobiographical?; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 9: Conclusion; Works Cited; Index