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Title: | Playful embodiment: Body and identity performance on the Internet |
Author: | Gómez Cruz, Edgar Ardèvol Piera, Elisenda |
Others: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
Keywords: | body identity Internet |
Issue Date: | Jan-2010 |
Publisher: | Quaderns de l'Institut Català d'Antropologia |
Citation: | Gómez Cruz, E. & Ardèvol, E. (2010). Playful embodiment: Body and identity performance on the Internet. Quaderns de l'Institut Català d'Antropologia, (26), 41-60. |
Also see: | https://www.raco.cat/index.php/QuadernsICA/article/view/245010 |
Abstract: | This paper discusses practices related to the presentation of the body on the Internet. We focus on the relation between body and identity performance in online interactions, comparing identity play in the early stages of text-based Internet and in current multimodal networking technologies. We argue that, while earlier practices were characterized by playing on anonymity, people are now engaged in a 'playful embodiment' process in relation to the production, diffusion and consumption of people's images of their own bodies through the Web. The empirical work is based on the analysis of Spanish and Latin American (photo) blogs that focus mainly on the body. |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10609/104326 |
ISSN: | 0211-5557MIAR |
Appears in Collections: | Articles Articles cientÍfics |
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