Overview
- Develops a new theoretical framework to specifically account for the diverse, changing, and growing social media landscape
- Provides a new framework to explore online identity, allowing social media users to reflect upon how they negotiate, build, and present their identity online
- Moves the discussion of the role of social media in the lives of young people beyond over-used ‘digital natives’ paradigms
- Includes suggestions for educational practitioners, researchers, and policymakers in each chapter
- Explores the various manners in which technology, education, and culture overlap
Part of the book series: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education (CSTE, volume 11)
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About this book
This book uses data collected from in-depth interviews with young people over the course of a year to explore the complex role of social media in their lives, and the part it plays in shaping how they understand and present their identity to a broad public on a wide array of platforms. Using this data, the book proposes and develops a new theoretical framework for understanding identity performances. Comic Theory, detailed in this book, centres on a consideration of the role of social media design in shaping identity, and explores the ways in which socio-culturally grounded users engage in acts of compromise, novelty, and negotiation with social media designs and digital technologies to produce unique identity performances.
Positioned within the field of educational research, this book overtly challenges assumptions and myths about the internet as a neutral source of knowledge, instead exploring the way in which designs and technologies shape who we interact with and how we understand what it is to be social. Moving beyond the over-used ‘digital natives’ paradigm, this book makes a clear case that educators and education researchers need to move beyond a focus on coding and digital skills alone, highlighting the pressing need to take explicit account of the overlaps between digital technology, culture, and education.Reviews
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About the author
Harry’s current research focus is on the lively field of Digital Sociology. His work explores a range of socio-cultural dynamics online, from broad questions around how identity manifests itself online to deeper explorations of emergent communities such as the ‘flat-earth’ movement. He’s also looking into ‘fake news’, exploring how it has been covered by the media, how education is responding to ‘fake news’, and how young people are consuming news online. Harry serves as an editor for Digital Culture and Education, and is a member of the British Sociological Association’s Digital Sociology group.
He has taught extensively at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, including courses on research methodology, social theory, media and education, educational theory and practice, and research ethics. Given his broad background, Harry’s research and teaching interests are equally expansive, and include digital sociology, identity theory, social theory, science and technology studies, research methodology, ethics, sociolinguistics, poststructuralism, and media and education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Designing the Social
Book Subtitle: Unpacking Social Media Design and Identity
Authors: Harry T. Dyer
Series Title: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5716-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5715-6Published: 12 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5718-7Published: 12 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5716-3Published: 11 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2345-7708
Series E-ISSN: 2345-7716
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 172
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Media, Media Sociology, Sociology of Education, Cultural Studies