Self-Representation and Digital Culture

Self-Representation and Digital Culture
Author: N. Thumim
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012-07-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137265132

Taking a close look at ordinary people 'telling their own story', Nancy Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums.

Self-Representation

Self-Representation
Author: Jona Goldschmidt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1793616655

Self-representation has a long, venerable history dating to biblical times and continuing through the common law, the colonial era, to the present. This book collects and analyzes the law, ethics opinions, and empirical studies about the wide range of issues surrounding Self-represented litigants (SRLs) in our justice system, including how much, if any, assistance should a judge provide, what duties do lawyers interacting with SRLs, and many others. Using recent empirical studies from both Civil litigation and criminal defense, Jona Goldschmidt argues that SRLs’ cases cannot be fairly heard without a mandatory judicial duty of reasonable assistance. In order to maintain public trust and confidence in our justice system, self-represented parties must be guided and assisted. Courts and the legal profession should continue to adapt and meet the challenge of managing and interacting with those who choose or are compelled to self-represent. Only when self-represented litigants are embraced by the courts, they will finally receive “equal justice under law.” This book would be of interest to those studying criminal justice and legal studies, specifically legal history and legal ethics, as well as judges, lawyers and other professionals in the field.

Self-Representation in an Expanded Field

Self-Representation in an Expanded Field
Author: Ace Lehner
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2021-05-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3038975648

Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies have facilitated a diversity of image making practices and enabled otherwise representationally marginalized constituencies to insert self-representations into visual culture. In the Western European and North American art-historical context, self-portraiture has been somewhat rigidly albeit obliquely defined, and selfies have facilitated a shift regarding who literally holds the power to self-image. Like self-portraits, not all selfies are inherently aesthetically or conceptually rigorous or avant-guard. But, –as this project aims to do address via a variety of interdisciplinary approaches– selfies have irreversibly impacted visual culture, contemporary art, and portraiture in particular. Selfies propose new modes of self-imaging, forward emerging aesthetics and challenge established methods, they prove that as scholars and image-makers it is necessary to adapt and innovate in order to contend with the most current form of self-representation to date. The essays gathered herein will reveal that in our current moment it is necessary and advantageous to consider the merits and interventions of selfies and self-portraiture in an expanded field of self-representations. We invite authors to take interdisciplinary global perspectives, to investigate various sub-genres, aesthetic practices, and lineages in which selfies intervene to enrich the discourse on self-representation in the expanded field today.

Injustice in Person

Injustice in Person
Author: Rabeea Assy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199687447

The right to litigate in person is fiercely protected in common law jurisdictions, but litigants in person nonetheless pose serious challenges to the administration of justice. By examining the theoretical underpinnings of the right to self-representation, this book provides a new perspective in the debate over access to justice.

Creating Women

Creating Women
Author: Manuela Scarci
Publisher:
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2013
Genre: European literature
ISBN: 9780772721464

Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art

Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art
Author: Alexa Sand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2014-03-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1107032229

Focuses on one of the most attractive features of late medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her prayer-book.

Seeing Ourselves Through Technology

Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
Author: Jill W. Rettberg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2014-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137476664

This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written, visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves and allowing our machines to tell us who we are.

Women's Lives

Women's Lives
Author: Nahir I. Otaño Gracia
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786838354

Essays on a variety of medieval women, which will grant readers a more complete view of medieval women’s lives broadly speaking. These essays largely take a new perspective on their subjects, pushing readers to reconsider preconceived notions about medieval women, authority, and geography. This book will expand the knowledge base of our readers by introducing them to non-canonical and non-European subjects.

Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube

Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube
Author: Tobias Raun
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2016-05-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317084675

Trans people are increasingly stepping out of the shadow of pathologization and secretiveness to tell their life stories, share information and to connect with like-minded others, using YouTube as a platform. Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube explores the digital revolution of trans video blogging, addressing ’trans’ in its many meanings and configurations to examine the different ways in which the body in transformation and the vlog as a medium intersect. Drawing on rich, virtual ethnographic studies of trans video blogging, the author sheds light on the ways in which the video blog (or ’vlog’) as a multimodal medium enables trans people to tell their stories with the use of sound, text, music, and pictures - thus offering new ways to construct and archive bodily changes, and to revise the story endlessly. A groundbreaking study of the intersection between trans identity and technology, Out Online explores the transformative and therapeutic potential of the video blog as a means by which trans vloggers can emerge and develop online, using the vlog as a site for creation, intervention, community building and resistance. As such, it will appeal to social scientists and scholars of cultural and media studies with interests in gender, sexuality and embodiment.

In Her Own Image

In Her Own Image
Author: Danielle Knafo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Knafo, a feminist psychoanalyst and art critic, extends the discourse between feminism and art history, while revealing core psychological sensibilities involved in women's self-representation - the need for mirroring, the use of mask and masquerade, the drive for reparation, the presence of the uncanny, and the concept of female narcissism. --Publisher.