Girls, Autobiography, Media: Gender and Self-Mediation in Digital Economies
Girls, Autobiography, Media: Gender and Self-Mediation in Digital Economies (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing) by Emma Maguire
English | 18 May 2018 | ISBN: 3319742361 | 232 Pages | PDF | 3.27 MB
English | 18 May 2018 | ISBN: 3319742361 | 232 Pages | PDF | 3.27 MB
This book investigates how girls’ automedial selves are constituted and consumed as literary or media products in a digital landscape dominated by intimate, though quite public, modes of self-disclosure and pervaded by broader practices of self-branding.
In thinking about how girlhood as a potentially vulnerable subject position circulates as a commodity, Girls, Autobiography, Media argues that by using digital technologies to write themselves into culture, girls and young women are staking a claim on public space and asserting the right to create and distribute their own representations of girlhood. Their texts―in the form of blogs, vlogs, photo-sharing platforms, online diaries and fangirl identities―show how they navigate the sometimes hostile conditions of online spaces in order to become narrators of their own lives and stories.