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Social Networking and Identity

Social Networking and Identity

Rachel Barker
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 28
ISBN13: 9781466622111|ISBN10: 1466622113|EISBN13: 9781466622128
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2211-1.ch026
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Barker, Rachel. "Social Networking and Identity." Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society, edited by Rocci Luppicini, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 474-501. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2211-1.ch026

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Barker, R. (2013). Social Networking and Identity. In R. Luppicini (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society (pp. 474-501). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2211-1.ch026

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Barker, Rachel. "Social Networking and Identity." In Handbook of Research on Technoself: Identity in a Technological Society, edited by Rocci Luppicini, 474-501. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2211-1.ch026

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Abstract

The realisation that social networks in cyberspace create a different virtual setting where a Technoself can be created by the way an individual shape their self (body and identity) to their own as well as society’s liking, elicits a notion that there was once either an ideal era of bliss or a Utopian promise of universal self-realisation. From a communicative perspective, this chapter propagates how social networks and identity are consequences of the accelerating rate of change and the subsequent ‘cyber revolution’.

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