Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Identity
- The Cambridge Handbook of Identity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Identity: With or Without You?
- Part I The Origin and Development of the Concept of Identity
- Part II New Perspectives and Challenges
- Part III Methodological Approaches
- 11 A Narrative Practice Approach to Identities: Small Stories and Positioning Analysis in Digital Contexts
- 12 Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology: Identity at Stake in a Kinship Carers’ Support Group
- 13 Foucauldian-Informed Discourse Analysis
- 14 A Methodology to Examine Identity: Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis
- 15 Autoethnography
- 16 A Sociocultural Approach to Identity through Diary Studies
- 17 Positioning Microanalysis: A Method For the Study of Dynamics in the Dialogical Self and Identity
- 18 Synthesized or Confused Field? A Critical Analysis of the State-of-the-Art in Identity Status Research Methods
- 19 Criminals’ Narrative Identity
- 20 Experimentation within the Social Identity Approach: History, Highlights, and Hurdles
- Part IV Current Domains
- Part V Where Is Identity?
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- References
11 - A Narrative Practice Approach to Identities: Small Stories and Positioning Analysis in Digital Contexts
from Part III - Methodological Approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Identity
- The Cambridge Handbook of Identity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Identity: With or Without You?
- Part I The Origin and Development of the Concept of Identity
- Part II New Perspectives and Challenges
- Part III Methodological Approaches
- 11 A Narrative Practice Approach to Identities: Small Stories and Positioning Analysis in Digital Contexts
- 12 Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology: Identity at Stake in a Kinship Carers’ Support Group
- 13 Foucauldian-Informed Discourse Analysis
- 14 A Methodology to Examine Identity: Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis
- 15 Autoethnography
- 16 A Sociocultural Approach to Identity through Diary Studies
- 17 Positioning Microanalysis: A Method For the Study of Dynamics in the Dialogical Self and Identity
- 18 Synthesized or Confused Field? A Critical Analysis of the State-of-the-Art in Identity Status Research Methods
- 19 Criminals’ Narrative Identity
- 20 Experimentation within the Social Identity Approach: History, Highlights, and Hurdles
- Part IV Current Domains
- Part V Where Is Identity?
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
This chapter discusses small stories and positioning as epistemological and analytical tools for the study of identities and affect in digital contexts. We start by discussing the shift from views of narrative as a textual mode of communication to stories as embodied communicative practice associated with identity positioning at different levels. We then move on to illustrate positioning analysis as an empirical framework for investigating how narrative identities are emploted and updated, reiterated and sedimented as ways of telling and as types of participation. Drawing on our respective work on sharing emotion and the self in social media, we call for the extension of identity positioning analysis to the study of affective positioning practices in light of their heightened importance in the performance of “authentic” identities in digital contexts. We show how a YouTube vlogger enacts her affective positioning through specific sets of linguistic, paralinguistic, and embodied markers that cue her affective orientations at different levels of her vlogging narrative activity. We conclude by foregrounding the continued relevance of positioning analysis for the study of identities in digital contexts and the need to keep updating it in response to “new” tensions and dilemmas arising from emerging narrative and identity modes.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Identity , pp. 241 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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