“What i see when my eyes fall out”: anticipations, intensifications, immediacies, and transitions of identity construction, affect design, and movement building in digital spaces

<p>This thesis project explores how social media intervenes in and co-constructs spaces, affects, communities, and identities. I demonstrate how autobiography through social media constrains, expands, automates, normalizes, and surveils us as we write, post, and share ourselves into a profoundly communal existence. I argue that social media guides our experiences and understandings of gender, race, class, and (dis)ability — by incorporating queer theory, feminist autobiography, disability justice, and narrative therapy frameworks, I recall how I have storied my life and how my life has been storied for me online over the past 20 years to curate a mad auto ethnography of social media profiles. This thesis brings together multiple interdisciplinary theoretical fields and works within emergent methodologies rooted in disability justice and madness liberation to give a surrealist sense of space and emotion reflected in both the mania of insanity and the rush of social media experience. By doing so, I demonstrate and reveal how social media impacts identities and communities via new sensations characterized by anticipation, intensification, immediacy, and transition. </p>

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Women's & Gender Studies

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Tikka, Joshie

• madness studies
• queer theory
• feminist autobiography
• narrative therapy
• digital humanities

Repository record dc:identifier

https://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/291

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:via.library.depaul.edu:etd-1304