Overview
- Examines narratives across a wide variety of digital media
- Makes visible some of the complexities around mediating young, feminine subjectivities
- Proposes a revised definition of “automediality” that broadens the scope and sharpens the focus of this term
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing (PSLW)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book investigates how girls’ automedial selves are constituted and consumed as literary or media products in a digital landscape dominated by intimate, though quite public, modes of self-disclosure and pervaded by broader practices of self-branding.
In thinking about how girlhood as a potentially vulnerable subject position circulates as a commodity, Girls, Autobiography, Media argues that by using digital technologies to write themselves into culture, girls and young women are staking a claim on public space and asserting the right to create and distribute their own representations of girlhood. Their texts—in the form of blogs, vlogs, photo-sharing platforms, online diaries and fangirl identities—show how they navigate the sometimes hostile conditions of online spaces in order to become narrators of their own lives and stories.
By examining case studies across different digital forms of self-presentation by girls and young women, this book considers how mediationand autobiographical practices are deeply interlinked, and it highlights the significant contribution girls and young women have made to contemporary digital forms of life narrative.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Emma Maguire researches life narrative, gender, and media at Flinders University, Australia where she also teaches English and Creative Writing. She is a member of the International Auto/Biography Association, serves on the IABA Asia-Pacific Chapter steering committee and is a founding member of the IABA SNS (Students and New Scholars) network.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Girls, Autobiography, Media
Book Subtitle: Gender and Self-Mediation in Digital Economies
Authors: Emma Maguire
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74237-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74236-6Published: 16 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08943-6Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74237-3Published: 05 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9185
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9193
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 216
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literature and Technology/Media, Digital Humanities, Contemporary Literature, Media and Communication, Social Media, Culture and Gender