The politics of becoming : anonymity and democracy in the digital age / Hans Asenbaum.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Asenbaum, Hans, 1982- author.

Series:

• Oxford scholarship online.
• Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Democracy--Social aspects.
• Social media--Political aspects.
• Social media and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

What roles do our identities play in democratic politics? When we participate in citizens' assemblies or in social movement gatherings, we are judged by how we look, which clothes we wear, by our skin colour, gender and body language. This book explores radical democratic acts of disidentification to counter this problem. Anonymity in masked protest, pamphleteering, graffiti, and online debate interrupts our everyday identities. By concealing our identities, anonymity allows us to live our multiple selves. In the digital age, anonymity becomes an inherent part of everyday communication. Through our smart devices we express our selves differently. As cyborgs our identities are disrupted and reassembled. We curate self-representations on social media, create avatars, share selfies and choose the skin colour of our emojis.

Contents:

• Cover
• Titlepage
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• 1 Becoming Subject to Change: An Introduction
• 2 Becoming Assemblage: Democratic Spaces
• 3 Becoming Present: Feminist Interventions
• 4 Becoming Multiple: Identity, Interrupted
• 5 Becoming Anonymous: Absence as Presence
• 6 Becoming Cyborg: New (Inter)faces
• 7 Unleashing the Democratic Microverse: Towards Systemic Transformations
• References
• Index.

Notes:

• Also issued in print: 2023.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 25, 2023).

ISBN:

• 0-19-267473-0
• 0-19-194938-8
• 0-19-267472-2

OCLC:

1391444144