Digital Exhibitionism: The Age of Exposure

Web 2.0 has expanded the possibilities of digital creative production by individuals and enabled the digitalisation of private life experiences. This study analyses how social media contributes to the making of personal biographies and discusses the shift towards a culture of digital exposure. This...

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Main Author: Ana María Munar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2010-09-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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Online Access:https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/1935
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spelling doaj-93c39bf910574659b3af1fc001adc6612020-11-25T04:03:32ZengLinköping University Electronic PressCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research2000-15252010-09-012310.3384/cu.2000.1525.10223401Digital Exhibitionism: The Age of ExposureAna María Munar0Department of International Eco-nomics and Management, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Web 2.0 has expanded the possibilities of digital creative production by individuals and enabled the digitalisation of private life experiences. This study analyses how social media contributes to the making of personal biographies and discusses the shift towards a culture of digital exposure. This study uses netnography and a constructive approach to examine online communities and social networks. The findings illustrate that these new technological platforms are mediating in the construction of late modern biographies, which are expanding the complexity of today’s socio-technical systems. The paper discusses the power of these technologies as agents of socio-cultural change and suggests that, besides providing individual realisation and mediated pleasure, these technologies encourage exhibitionistic and voyeuristic behaviour, elude reflexivity, and display authoritative tendencies and new possibilities for social control. https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/1935Social mediacultural changeonline communitiessocial control
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author Ana María Munar
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Digital Exhibitionism: The Age of Exposure
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
Social media
cultural change
online communities
social control
author_facet Ana María Munar
author_sort Ana María Munar
title Digital Exhibitionism: The Age of Exposure
title_short Digital Exhibitionism: The Age of Exposure
title_full Digital Exhibitionism: The Age of Exposure
title_fullStr Digital Exhibitionism: The Age of Exposure
title_full_unstemmed Digital Exhibitionism: The Age of Exposure
title_sort digital exhibitionism: the age of exposure
publisher Linköping University Electronic Press
series Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
issn 2000-1525
publishDate 2010-09-01
description Web 2.0 has expanded the possibilities of digital creative production by individuals and enabled the digitalisation of private life experiences. This study analyses how social media contributes to the making of personal biographies and discusses the shift towards a culture of digital exposure. This study uses netnography and a constructive approach to examine online communities and social networks. The findings illustrate that these new technological platforms are mediating in the construction of late modern biographies, which are expanding the complexity of today’s socio-technical systems. The paper discusses the power of these technologies as agents of socio-cultural change and suggests that, besides providing individual realisation and mediated pleasure, these technologies encourage exhibitionistic and voyeuristic behaviour, elude reflexivity, and display authoritative tendencies and new possibilities for social control.
topic Social media
cultural change
online communities
social control
url https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/1935
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