Identity and Digital Communication: Concepts, Theories, Practices

This comprehensive text explores the relationship between identity, subjectivity and digital communication, providing a strong starting point for understanding how fast-changing communication technologies, platforms, applications and practices have an impact on how we perceive ourselves, others, relationships and bodies.

Drawing on critical studies of identity, behaviour and representation, Identity and Digital Communication demonstrates how identity is shaped and understood in the context of significant and ongoing shifts in online communication. Chapters cover a range of topics including advances in social networking, the development of deepfake videos, intimacies of everyday communication, the emergence of cultures based on algorithms, the authenticities of TikTok and online communication's setting as a site for hostility and hate speech. Throughout the text, author Rob Cover shows how the formation and curation of self-identity is increasingly performed and engaged with through digital cultural practices, affirming that these practices must be understood if we are to make sense of identity in the 2020s and beyond.

Featuring critical accounts, everyday examples and analysis of key platforms such as TikTok, this textbook is an essential primer for scholars and students in media studies, psychology, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, computer science, as well as health practitioners, mental health advocates and community members.

這本全面的書籍探討了身份、主體性和數位溝通之間的關係，為理解快速變化的溝通技術、平台、應用和實踐對我們如何感知自己、他人、關係和身體產生影響提供了一個堅實的起點。

《身份與數位溝通》借鑒了對身份、行為和表徵的批判性研究，展示了在線溝通不斷變化的背景下，身份如何被塑造和理解。各章節涵蓋了一系列主題，包括社交網絡的進展、深偽視頻的發展、日常溝通的親密性、基於演算法的文化的出現、TikTok的真實性以及線上溝通作為敵意和仇恨言論的場所。在整本書中，作者羅布·卡弗（Rob Cover）展示了自我身份的形成和策劃越來越多地通過數位文化實踐來進行和參與，並肯定只有理解這些實踐，我們才能理解2020年代及以後的身份。

這本教科書以批判性的描述、日常例子和對TikTok等關鍵平台的分析為特色，是媒體研究、心理學、文化研究、社會學、人類學、計算機科學以及健康從業人員、心理健康倡導者和社區成員的學者和學生的必備入門書籍。

Rob Cover is Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Rob Cover是澳洲墨爾本皇家墨爾本理工大學的數位傳播教授。