Multimodal, multiplex, multispatial: A network model of the self. Banks, J. New Media & Society, 19(3):419–438, March, 2017. Publisher: SAGE Publications
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Contemporary culture finds human experience spread across various digital and physical spaces. Although many scholars embrace derivative perspectives of a distributed self—dramaturgical, multiphrenic, networked—these notions are seldom engaged as empirically testable theories. This article proposes a theoretical model to foster such empirical examination, in which the “self” is not engaged as a node in broader social networks, but taken as a network itself. That is, the self is reframed as a subjectively experienced network of identities that are, themselves, complex assemblages of many different kinds of objects. In this way, the binaries of me/not-me, human/nonhuman, material/immaterial, and digital/physical are unraveled in favor of more precisely identified interrelated agents giving rise to the Self across digital and physical contexts.
@article{banks_multimodal_2017,
	title = {Multimodal, multiplex, multispatial: {A} network model of the self},
	volume = {19},
	issn = {1461-4448},
	shorttitle = {Multimodal, multiplex, multispatial},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444815606616},
	doi = {10.1177/1461444815606616},
	abstract = {Contemporary culture finds human experience spread across various digital and physical spaces. Although many scholars embrace derivative perspectives of a distributed self—dramaturgical, multiphrenic, networked—these notions are seldom engaged as empirically testable theories. This article proposes a theoretical model to foster such empirical examination, in which the “self” is not engaged as a node in broader social networks, but taken as a network itself. That is, the self is reframed as a subjectively experienced network of identities that are, themselves, complex assemblages of many different kinds of objects. In this way, the binaries of me/not-me, human/nonhuman, material/immaterial, and digital/physical are unraveled in favor of more precisely identified interrelated agents giving rise to the Self across digital and physical contexts.},
	language = {en},
	number = {3},
	urldate = {2021-07-11},
	journal = {New Media \& Society},
	author = {Banks, Jaime},
	month = mar,
	year = {2017},
	note = {Publisher: SAGE Publications},
	keywords = {Actor-networks, identity, multiphrenia, multiplicity, networked self, postmodernity, self},
	pages = {419--438},
}

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