Do identity performances on SNS generally represent the same aspirations and reflect the same value profiles as users' offline identity performances?
Do the more explicitly aspirational identity performances on SNS encourage users to take steps to actually embody those aspirations offline, or do they tend to weaken the motivation to do so?
Paying particular attention to template design and linguistic and visual commonplaces that inform genre expectations for gendered identity performances in this space, this rhetorical analysis focuses on the author's online dating profile.
The ideas that dominate fashion — identity, performance, gender, body shapes, sexuality, logos and the quest for state-of-the-art materials — pretty well describe the world of the superhero.
Taking a relational approach to sociomateriality, the paper contributes to the further theorizing of space in organization studies by proposing the concept of spacing identity to capture the fluidity of identity performance.
Specifically, when comparing these remediated dating commonplace books to their Victorian era predecessors, I consider dependence on limited, normative views of gender, the use of scripts and visual and linguistic commonplaces, the public nature of a privately crafted identity performance, and the focus on future, desired roles and identities rather than present identities.
If Lilly Pulitzer is a uniform, what does that say about the identity performance of the individuals well off enough to wear the brand?
The music venue or club space is also a venue of intense identity performance, and VR could allow more agency for embodying different liquid personas and roles.
The club space is a venue of intense identity performance, and VR could allow more agency for embodying different liquid personas.
After I finish a drawing, to complete the cycle of contemporary selfie-portraiture as identity performance, I upload it to several social media platforms, Facebook, Instagram, Ello, Twitter, and Google Plus.
Their work explores relationships among art, politics and international identity through performances pieces, sculpture, photography and sound-and-video.
