Networked Self and Platforms, Stories, Connections

Zizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Communication Department and Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and University Scholar at the University of Illinois System. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. She has published nine books, including Affective Publics, A Private Sphere, A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites (Routledge, 2010) and over 60 journal articles, book chapters and reviews. She is the founding and current editor of the open access journal Social Media and Society.

"It’s not just the media system that’s a storytelling project: so is the self. Each of us is a dynamic and uncertain performance, where the struggle to mean is technological and social as well as personal. Difference, desire, and disaster are held in tension by stories, competing for scarce attention. Papacharissi's compelling collection shows how." -John Hartley, Curtin University, Australia"In this fascinating volume, Papacharissi has brought together a cutting-edge lineup of scholars to reflect on how we connect and who we become, when we share our stories on digital platforms. A must-read on the thrills and perils of story-telling, self-expression and networked connectivity." Lilie Chouliaraki, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

• IntroductionZizi PapacharissiThe Networked Self in the Age of Identity FundamentalismDaniel KreissNews and the Networked Self: Performativity, Platforms, and Journalistic Epistemologies Matt Carlson and Seth C. LewisPublicness on Platforms: Tracing the mutual articulation of platform architectures and user practices Thomas Poell, Sudha Rajagopalan, and Anastasia KavadaThe Bot Proxy: Designing Automated Self ExpressionSamuel Woolley, Samantha Shorey, and Philip HowardThe Emotional Architecture of Social MediaKarin Wahl-Jorgensen"The more I look like Justin Bieber in the pictures, the better": Queer women’s self-representation on Instagram Stefanie DuguayAffective Mobile Spectres: Understanding the Lives of Mobile Media Images of the DeadLarissa Hjorth and Kathleen M. CumiskeyCleavage-control: Stories of algorithmic culture and power in the case of the YouTube ‘Reply Girls’.Taina BucherFrom networked to quantified self: Self-tracking and the moral economy of dataAristea Fotopoulou‘Doing’ Local: Place-Based Travel Apps and the Globally Networked SelfErika PolsonThe Networked Self and Defense of Privacy: Reading Surveillance Fiction in the Wake of the Snowden RevelationsAdrienne Russell and Risto KuneliusMobile Media Stories and the Process of Designing Contested Landscapes Jason Farman