Tag: networked self

• Gendering Hatsune Miku

  

  Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and I have been working on our concept of the networked gender, building off the concept of the networked self to understand the co-constructive nature of gender identity. We will be publishing a piece on using this concept to look at BMO in Adventure Time, and this represents our […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 26, 2017

  Artificial Agents, Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Gender Studies, Uncategorized

  gender, gender identity, Hatsune Miku, identity, networked gender, networked self, social constructivism, Symbolic Interactionism, virtual bands, vocaloids

• The Symbolic Interactionism of “Her”

  Her is a movie exploring the tensions of love, relationship, sex, and what it means to be human. It is a beautiful romance between a man and his operating system that leaves both changed for the better.  It is a glimpse into what our future may be as the singularity is approached and artificial life is […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 20, 2014

  Communication Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Internet Studies

  Amy Adams, artificial intelligence, Chris Pratt, George Herbert Mead, Her, Herbert Blumler, identity, intuitive agents, Joaquin Phoenix, networked gender, networked self, Olivia Wilde, operating systems, post-verbal, Samantha, Scarlett Johansson, sense of self, Spike Jonze, Symbolic Interactionism, Theodore, Zizi Papacharissi