Situating the "I", our sense of who we are and how we then choose to represent our often conflicting identities has long since entered the web. Amongst others blogs are the new media to negotiate the self and its relations to others, made available for users worldwide. Like other human narratives, a blog is an aesthetic practice that seeks to bridge internal and external worlds of knowing. They are produced by writers at times critically engaging with essentializing myths about their identities, at others prioritizing self-marketing over self-reflection.
In this class, we will first theorize online practices of identity construction and then investigate blogs as sites where discourses of belonging are questioned, transformed or repeated online and as as narrative practices that can foster individual and cultural identity-making and belonging.
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wöchentlich | Fr | 10-12 | X-E0-224 | 11.10.2019-31.01.2020
not on: 11/1/19 / 12/27/19 / 1/3/20 |
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23-ANG-AngPM3 Profilmodul 3: American Studies | PM 3. 2 Social and Cultural Studies: US America | Study requirement
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23-ANG-AngPM3.1 Profilmodul 3.1: American Studies | 3.1.2 Social and Cultural Studies: US America | Study requirement
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23-ANG-AngPM3.1_a Profilmodul 3.1: American Studies | PM 3.1.2 Social and Cultural Studies (North America) | Study requirement
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23-ANG-AngPM3_a Profilmodul 3: American Studies | 3.2 Social and Cultural Studies (North America) | Study requirement
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