Beschreibung:
This book examines the mediated shift in the contemporary human condition, focusing on the ways in which we synthesize with media content in daily life, essentially transmediating ourselves into new forms and (re)creating ourselves across media.
Introduction: Conceptualising the Transmedia Self; PART I: Communication of the Self; 1. Story of the (Virtual) Self: Transmedial Narrative Construction through Social Media Usage; 2. Personal Storytelling: A Semiotics Approach to Constructing Identities across Media; 3. Professional Transmedia Selves: Finding a Place for Enterprise Social Media; 4. The Post-Digital Self: How Transmedia Dissolves the Boundaries of Work and Tourism; PART II: Technologies of the Self; 5. The Transtemporal Self: Transmedia, Self, and Time; 6. Crossing Space-Time Action; 7. Geotagging the Self: Analysing the Locative Dimension of Constructed Transmedia Identities 8. Made in My Image: Co-Produced Fantasy and the Politics of Play; PART III: Politics of the Self; 9. Trans, Media and [In]Visibility: Trans Representation in the Transmedia Era; 10.The Manosphere: Incel as Transmedial Construction; 11. #PrayforAmazonia: Transmedia Mobilisation within National, Transnational and International Identities; 12. The Kabir Project: Using Transmedia Work to Disrupt Right-Wing Narratives of Othering