i-screens: Screen Performance and Screen Presence as the Currency of Contemporary Subjectivity
This essay explores the pervasive influence of screen-based performances in the context of a world that envelops us with its mediations. The essay argues, firstly, that we have become so attuned to these external, image-based performances that we tend to conflate them with our own interior sense of...
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| description | This essay explores the pervasive influence of screen-based performances in the context of a world that envelops us with its mediations. The essay argues, firstly, that we have become so attuned to these external, image-based performances that we tend to conflate them with our own interior sense of self, and secondly, that as we become increasingly wedded to screen media - not just as consumers but also as "DIY" producer-performers - the phenomenon of having a screen/media presence for our own self-performances is becoming a significant means by which we authenticate ourselves as subjects. The essay proposes that our growing intimacy with cameras and screens, combined with an apparently intensifying imperative to perform ourselves to real or imagined audiences via various screen-based channels of mediation, could be said to be transforming us into postmodern "performing subjects". |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-349792017-01-30T13:46:54Z i-screens: Screen Performance and Screen Presence as the Currency of Contemporary Subjectivity Miller, Ken self-reflexivity vlogging social media performative documentary DIY culture cyberspace YouTube participatory media web 2.0 screen performance reality television This essay explores the pervasive influence of screen-based performances in the context of a world that envelops us with its mediations. The essay argues, firstly, that we have become so attuned to these external, image-based performances that we tend to conflate them with our own interior sense of self, and secondly, that as we become increasingly wedded to screen media - not just as consumers but also as "DIY" producer-performers - the phenomenon of having a screen/media presence for our own self-performances is becoming a significant means by which we authenticate ourselves as subjects. The essay proposes that our growing intimacy with cameras and screens, combined with an apparently intensifying imperative to perform ourselves to real or imagined audiences via various screen-based channels of mediation, could be said to be transforming us into postmodern "performing subjects". 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34979 National Academy of Screen and Sound fulltext |
| spellingShingle | self-reflexivity vlogging social media performative documentary DIY culture cyberspace YouTube participatory media web 2.0 screen performance reality television Miller, Ken i-screens: Screen Performance and Screen Presence as the Currency of Contemporary Subjectivity |
| title | i-screens: Screen Performance and Screen Presence as the Currency of Contemporary Subjectivity |
| title_full | i-screens: Screen Performance and Screen Presence as the Currency of Contemporary Subjectivity |
| title_fullStr | i-screens: Screen Performance and Screen Presence as the Currency of Contemporary Subjectivity |
| title_full_unstemmed | i-screens: Screen Performance and Screen Presence as the Currency of Contemporary Subjectivity |
| title_short | i-screens: Screen Performance and Screen Presence as the Currency of Contemporary Subjectivity |
| title_sort | i-screens: screen performance and screen presence as the currency of contemporary subjectivity |
| topic | self-reflexivity vlogging social media performative documentary DIY culture cyberspace YouTube participatory media web 2.0 screen performance reality television |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34979 |