Main description:

* Explores how fast-changing communication technologies, platforms, applications and practices impact how we perceive ourselves, others, relationships and bodies.
* Shows how authentic, curated self-identity is increasingly formed, performed and engaged with through digital cultural practices, and these practices need to be understood if we are to make sense of identity in the 2020s and beyond
* Features critical accounts, everyday examples, and case studies focusing on key platforms from Instagram to TikTok.

Contents:

1. Identities: subjectivity and selfhood in a digital world 2. Interactivities: performativity, social media and online participation 3. Bodies: digital corporeality and identity 4. Simulacras: the evolution of the deepfake 5. Geographies: globalisation and re-nationalisation of digital communication 6. Hostilities: trolling, hate speech and exclusion in digital settings 7. Agencies: algorithms, choices and artificial decision-making 8. Authenticities: TikTok and the perception of authentic identities 9. Futures: the self in development