Reconciling Narrative and Online Identities: Stories of Technology in the New York Times Modern Love Column Público
Conway, Hannah Elizabeth (Spring 2018)
Abstract
Social psychologists have written extensively about how our life stories are the foundation of our identities. “Reconciling Narrative and Online Identities” investigates how the advent of cyberculture and technology has introduced a new way of telling our life stories, and subsequently, has transformed our identities. It uses personal essays published in the New York Times’ Modern Love column as insight into how this construction of virtual stories impacts the offline lives of their narrators—and how people write about this change.
Table of Contents
Introduction:
At A Café in Copenhagen
Overview of Thesis
Chapter One: Narrative Identity and Stories of the Self 7
Chapter Two: The Stories We Construct Online 19
Chapter Three: Illusions of Control
Identity as a Curated Brand
Clara Dollar’s “My So-Called (Instagram) Life”
Sage Cruser’s “Cropped Out of My Own Fantasy” 25
Chapter Four: Screened Intimacies
Justin Race’s “Words With (I Wish We Were More Than) Friends”
Caitlin Dewey’s “Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us”
Chris Osborn’s “Downloadable. Unsustainable, Too”
Davis Webster’s “Swiping Right on Tinder, but Staying Put”
Anita Felicelli’s “Finally Stepping Out From Behind The Computer” 35
Chapter Five: The Inability to Forget
Heather L. Hunter’s “Traveling the Too-Much-Information Highway”
Amy Pittman’s “The Internet Still Thinks I’m Pregnant” 48
Chapter Six: Reconnection
Tré Miller Rodríguez’s “A Husband Lost, A Daughter Found”
Lori Ayotee’s “A Culture Gap The Size of An Ocean, Bridged By Facebook” 55
Conclusion 61
Bibliography 66
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