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Examines shifts in how identities are created, expressed, affected, and communicated since the advent of the digital era

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Understanding Identity—Theories and Approaches

Chapter 2: Identity, Behavior, and Performativity

Chapter 3: Identity and Digital Medical—From Virtual Realities to Virtual Identities

Chapter 4: Digital Media and Corporeality

Chapter 5: Identity and Social Networking

Chapter 6: Mobile Information, Mobilities, and Networked Subjectivity

Chapter 7: Identity and the Digital Divide

Chapter 8: Identity, Internet, and Globalization

Chapter 9: Digital Identity and Surveillance

Chapter 10: Identity, Digital Communication, and Community

Chapter 11: Beyond Identity and Normativity

About the Author

Rob Cover is Head of the Media and Communication Discipline and Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia. He researches and publishes on issues of media and identity, including digital media theory, queer theory, youth sexuality and representation, cultural concepts of population and migration, as well as sports, masculinities and media scandal. He has published over fifty journal articles and book chapters since 2000, and his most recent books are Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? (Ashgate, 2012) and Vulnerability and Exposure: Footballer Scandals, Masculine Identity and Ethics (UWAP Scholarly, 2015).