Topic:
Identity, Embodiment, Performance
No# of Pages:
4 pages (1,000 words)
Academic Level:
Under Graduate
Subject Area:
Media Studies
Paper Style:
Harvard
No# of Sources Required:
9
Language:
English (U.K)
Details:
A concept note is designed to demonstrate your knowledge of a particular concept, critical idea or approach that can be utilised in a particular field of study. You are asked to prepare a concept note that explores "Identity, Embodiment, Performance"
You should begin by introducing and outlining the framework or concept you have chosen to focus on explaining its origins, the key thinkers associated with this idea and basic tenets of the approach. For instance, you might consider the following questions when preparing your concept note (but do not use these as headings in your writing):
What is the name of the concept you are addressing?
Who first began using this concept? Who was involved in first developing it?
What does this concept seek to reveal or investigate? Why was this concept developed? What is its purpose?
How does this concept work? What are the key priorities in this concept? How does it structure an approach to digital media and digital culture? What kinds of questions does it help us to consider?
The rest of your concept note should be dedicated to illustrating two instances where this concept, framework or critical approach has been used within a published study of digital media or culture. This is going to involve research! Having identified two suitable uses, you should explain how and why the concept was used and what it helped the researcher(s) to achieve in their work.
Referencing and Research
Due to the nature of this assessment and the learning outcomes tied to it, several further ‘rules’ are to be applied to your concept note:
A minimum of 6 references should be used in the concept note. This means that you should make explicit reference to, and use of 6 different pieces of secondary research.
The concept note should include a full bibliography that is set out according to the Harvard referencing style.
Harvard referencing should be used for all in-text references
All work should be double-spaced and include a page number in the bottom right hand corner.
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About the topic "Identity, Embodiment, Performance":
Modernity and post-modernity have been pre-occupied with questions of identity and self-hood. How do we come to understand ourselves and each other? What is the relationship between the individual and the state? What about identity politics? In this session we will look at the concept of identity by exploring to prominent theorists, Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Rutherford. Both are interested in understanding the relationship between who we understand ourselves to be and the forces exerted upon us by other parties (whether that be peers, or politics or capitalism). Unlike some of the other theories and frameworks we have been exploring, discussions of identity don’t come from a single origin point. We will, however, explore this theme from a number of positions and, hopefully, begin a process of self-reflection that will continue on into our discussions in the second section of the module.
Our seminar discussions are likely to touch upon the following questions:
Who am ‘I’ online? Who do ‘I’ want to be? Who do ‘you’ want ‘me’ to be?
What facets of my identity are overrepresented in certain digital platforms?
In what ways are aspects of our identities under represented?
How can we conceptualise the various acts and performances of identity online?