Selected Books and E-Books
Find below memoirs and other life writing of persons whose professional identities have been shaped by their participation in new (digital) media.
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate by Call Number: GV1469.34.A97 Q56 2017ISBN: 9781610398084Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Fakebook: A True Story, Based on Actual Lies by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9781402284151Publication Date: 2013-09-17
How to Stand up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future by Call Number: PN5426.R47 A3 2022ISBN: 9780063257511Publication Date: 2022-11-29
In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World by Call Number: CT275.G6285 A3 2015ISBN: 9781925184419Publication Date: 2015-05-19
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Call Number: PN1992.4.R3573 A3 2018ISBN: 9781538761038Publication Date: 2018-05-22
The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture by
Dinnen (Queen Mary University of London) tackles the social aspects of digital media and technology in literature. Winner of The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) Monograph Prize.
Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9780231184281Publication Date: 2018-01-02
Facebook Society: Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves by Call Number: HM743.F33 S56 2018ISBN: 9780231182720Publication Date: 2018-07-17
A Filtered Life: Social Media on a College Campus by
"A Filtered Life is the first comprehensive ethnographic account to explore how college students create and manage multiple identities on social media" (abstract).
Call Number: LA229 .T38 2022 (print only)ISBN: 9781003182047Publication Date: 2021-12-23
The Future of the Self: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Personhood and Identity in the Digital Age by
Friedenberg (Manhattan College) deals with the psychological aspects of identity and self-presentation online.
Call Number: BF697.5.S44 F75 2020 (print only)ISBN: 9780520302426Publication Date: 2020-08-04
I Confess!: Constructing the Sexual Self in the Internet Age by Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9780773559103Publication Date: 2019-11-21
Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online by Call Number: CT25 .I34 2014ISBN: 9780299296445Publication Date: 2013-12-30
Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies by
This history and criticism of autobiography as a literary form contains several relevant chapters such as "Auto-Assembling the Self on Social Networking Sites." The contributors' "subjects of scrutiny are biographies, memoirs, graphic novels, performances, paratheatricals, musicals, silent films, movies, documentary films, and social media" (abstract).
Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9783110579253Publication Date: 2018-09-10
The Language of Social Media: Identity and Community on the Internet by Call Number: HM742 .L36 2014 (print only)ISBN: 9781137029300Publication Date: 2014-02-19
Mediated Interfaces: The Body on Social Media by
"Examines digital embodiment, digital representations, and visual vernaculars as a mode of identity performance and management online" (abstract).
Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9781501356186Publication Date: 2020-06-11
Online a Lot of the Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign by
"The online environments Hillis [Communication, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill] examines reflect the dynamic contradictions at the core of identity and the ways these contradictions get signified" (abstract).
Call Number: HM851 .H546 2009 (print only)ISBN: 9780822344483Publication Date: 2009-05-27
Player and Avatar: The Affective Potential of Videogames by
Owen (University of Alberta, Edmonton) "explores concepts central to the design and enjoyment of video games, including affect, immersion, liveness, presence, agency, narrative, ideology and the player's virtual surrogate--the avatar" (abstract).
Call Number: GV1469.3 .O94 2017 (print only)ISBN: 9781476667195Publication Date: 2017-06-19
Stories of the Self: Life Writing After the Book by
This scholarly monograph "explores life writing after the book." It treats such topics as autobiography, identity (psychology) in mass media, and the social aspects of digital media.
Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOKISBN: 9781479863600Publication Date: 2020-08-25
