Booked a dark room studio for next Tues so we can fully record our video segments.
Continued looking at readings and different insights for research..
Youth Online: Identity and literacy in the digital age by Angela Thomas
- The necessity and unavoidable creation of a persona when interacting or being part of a cyber community
- How people construct their identities in various social contexts: social, fantasy, role-playing for various social purposes
- Text illuminates the ways in which people are making sense of their own identities and their place within broader communities.
- How identity is constructed, developed and performed in online contexts.
- Discuss notions of the body as it constructs the surface of identity and emphasise that there is an intimate connection between the body and the virtual self.