The branded self

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Bonnie Stewart University of Prince Edward Island The Branded Self: Cyborg subjectivities in social media http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannywitte/160841176/

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An ironic educational myth: panel presentation from Theorizing the Web 2011. Explores how social media subjects are branded by the operations of capital, reputation and metrics within digital sociality. Frames subjects as branded cyborgs and considers their capacity for subversion - as in Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto - of the very discourses that brought them into being.

Transcript of The branded self

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Bonnie StewartUniversity of Prince Edward Island

The Branded Self:Cyborg subjectivities in

social media

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannywitte/160841176/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/intherough/5067098977/

An Ironic Educational Myth

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/f7oor/564669765/

Digital Sociality

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/10231407@N02/4409544466/

The Branded Cyborg:new stories of self?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobanblack/3035489052/

The dirty word: Brand

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subjects social media platforms

capital & gift

exchanges

Mommy, where dobranded cyborgs come from?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/streetart-berlin/

Cyborg Subversion

Monstrous coupling = myth & ontology

Disrupts binaries

Witness to possibility

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The Performative Subject

Subjectivity = subjugation to & ongoing citation of discourse.

Agency emerges with subjugation & resignification.

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Iterability = Repetition = Possibility

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_justified_sinner/2197267529

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Practices, discourses, & circulations of power: the

digital is different

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The Branded Self

@bonstewart