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Taking a close look at ordinary people 'telling their own story', Nancy Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums.
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"Altogether, Thumin has produced a valuable study, full of insight and observation, of the multiple ways in which 'ordinary' people represent their 'ordinariness' through representing themselves, speaking about their lives, giving expression to their experiences. She attends to all this in a cohesive and integrated manner, offering us a highly satisfactory account of selfrepresentations
in digital culture." - European Journal of Communication 28(6)
"Thumim's first book is eloquently written and well-researched, and it manages to effectively distill and relay the ideas of complex and emerging topics. The work interrogates the meaning of truth, authenticity, and validity with regards to self-representation. Undergraduate and graduate students in media and communication studies would benefit from this highly enjoyable read, which is also scholarly, rigorous, in-depth, and precise." - International Journal of Communication 7, (2013)
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Nancy Thumim is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK. Thumim's research has been published in edited books and journals including Critical Discourse Studies, Javnost - The Public, and International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Self-Representation and Digital Culture
Authors: Nancy Thumim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137265135
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22966-2Published: 17 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52017-3Published: 17 July 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-26513-5Published: 17 July 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 205
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Media Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Media Research, Cultural Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies