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The Collaborative Self: From Collectivity to Individuality and What Blogs Can Teach Us About Identity

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dc.contributor.authorHagenah, Nathan
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-23T19:56:30Z
dc.date.available2014-01-23T19:56:30Z
dc.date.issued2014-01-23
dc.date.submitted2013
dc.description.abstractThis paper uses blogs as a starting point for an examination of how identity is constructed collaboratively through a series of linguistically mediated social processes. The goal is to establish a theoretical framework for understanding individual identity as rooted in media, language, and society and the result of collective social processes as opposed to their genesis. It draws together conceptual models from theorists in sociology, media studies, and genre theory to explore how selves are created in the online contexts of blogs and how those concepts relate to wider cultural concerns and anxieties related to the construction of individual identity. By examining issues of privacy, anonymity, and authenticity as they relate to blogs and bloggers, this paper aims to provide a view of individual identity as contextually situated yet continuous across social contexts and which is the result of collaborative, collective social processes.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/8187
dc.language.isoenen
dc.pendingfalse
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectblogen
dc.subjectidentityen
dc.subjectmediaen
dc.subjectsocietyen
dc.subjectlanguageen
dc.subjectselfen
dc.subjectprivacyen
dc.subjectanonymityen
dc.subjectpseudonymityen
dc.subjectauthenticityen
dc.subject.programEnglish (Rhetoric and Communication Design)en
dc.titleThe Collaborative Self: From Collectivity to Individuality and What Blogs Can Teach Us About Identityen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Artsen
uws-etd.degree.departmentEnglish Language and Literatureen
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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