This is my profile within the Canvas course management system I use. I updated it today for my short-term course on Selfies. The bio reads: Took this #firstdayofclass #selfie of me spying my shadow on Jan 2nd. What kind of selfie do you like to take? DID YOU KNOW: 92% of children under the age of two have a digital shadow. Your digital footprint = items you upload about yourself. Your digital shadow = items that others post about you. Your digital stamp = the summary of information people will learn about you today and 300 years from now digitally, your digital legacy. Digital stamp = digital footprints + shadows I am excited to extend my interest in digital self-presentation as a digital ethnographer and ethnomusicologist. For the past 2 years Ive been studying adolescent and teen black girls who broadcast themselves on YouTube while they twerk from the privacy of their own bedrooms. You may ask yourself Why? Critical, engaged ethnomusicology and social science research must be willing to explore what is meaningful, complex and natural about any human activity and be willing to help solve problems affecting the most vulnerable populations in our society. In this case its harm to minors, empowering children as social actors, and considering girls of color who are affected by the Digital Divide despite being equally tethered to mobile technology like their counterparts locally and globally. Black girls digital shadows and footprints while they twerk will likely bring more harm to their future selves than perhaps the 300 years of slavery, colonial rule and hegemony that still persists in affecting black lives 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation and 50 years after the bombing of a church that killed four little girls in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. Studying the selfie is a month-long inquiry into the YOU that you are online, the agency and risks the we individually, and collectively, are up against when you post digital images of yourself as part of the social phenomenon and craze called the selfie. We will be reading a book by Jill Rettberg called Seeing Ourselves Through Technology in which she writes: Selfies are descendants of visual artists’ self-portraits, and the quantitative modes of lifelogs, personal maps, productivity records and activity trackers are descendants of genres such as accounting, habit tracking and to-do lists. ... Digital self-representation is conversational and allows new voices to be heard. However, society disciplines digital self-representations such as selfies and blogs through ridicule and pathologising (Rettberg 2014, 1). We will be creating ways to share what we discover on Twitter and on YouTube. #staytuned
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 14:14:08 +0000
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