Mythologies individuelles, mythologies numériques ?

The concept of “individual mythology” is haunting the twentieth century: pushed forward by the capitalistic individualims, it means picturing ourselves, imagining our identity and performing it through the medias. It comes along with the idea of an individual writing everyday his own history, and it...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Magali Nachtergael
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Pléiade (EA 7338) 2015-01-01
Series:Itinéraires
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/2354
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1850150363174273024
author Magali Nachtergael
author_facet Magali Nachtergael
author_sort Magali Nachtergael
collection DOAJ
description The concept of “individual mythology” is haunting the twentieth century: pushed forward by the capitalistic individualims, it means picturing ourselves, imagining our identity and performing it through the medias. It comes along with the idea of an individual writing everyday his own history, and its most common form was the personal photo album. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, in the age of the digital and social networks, is this notion still relevant to qualify contemporary representation of the self? And how? Is the individual mythology being replaced by the only “performance,” in Erving Goffman’s sense? This paper, which aims to embrace a large point of view, studies the survival of individual mythology on the main social networks. It focuses specifically on Facebook which inherits the most of this notion, as much as formally than ideologically.
format Article
id doaj-art-4ec4cdb98b1444729abb3f94169bd881
institution OA Journals
issn 2427-920X
language fra
publishDate 2015-01-01
publisher Pléiade (EA 7338)
record_format Article
series Itinéraires
spelling doaj-art-4ec4cdb98b1444729abb3f94169bd8812025-08-20T02:26:35ZfraPléiade (EA 7338)Itinéraires2427-920X2015-01-012014110.4000/itineraires.2354Mythologies individuelles, mythologies numériques ?Magali NachtergaelThe concept of “individual mythology” is haunting the twentieth century: pushed forward by the capitalistic individualims, it means picturing ourselves, imagining our identity and performing it through the medias. It comes along with the idea of an individual writing everyday his own history, and its most common form was the personal photo album. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, in the age of the digital and social networks, is this notion still relevant to qualify contemporary representation of the self? And how? Is the individual mythology being replaced by the only “performance,” in Erving Goffman’s sense? This paper, which aims to embrace a large point of view, studies the survival of individual mythology on the main social networks. It focuses specifically on Facebook which inherits the most of this notion, as much as formally than ideologically.https://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/2354Facebookindividual mythologiessocial performancerepresentation of the selfpublic spacestereotypes
spellingShingle Magali Nachtergael
Mythologies individuelles, mythologies numériques ?
Itinéraires
Facebook
individual mythologies
social performance
representation of the self
public space
stereotypes
title Mythologies individuelles, mythologies numériques ?
title_full Mythologies individuelles, mythologies numériques ?
title_fullStr Mythologies individuelles, mythologies numériques ?
title_full_unstemmed Mythologies individuelles, mythologies numériques ?
title_short Mythologies individuelles, mythologies numériques ?
title_sort mythologies individuelles mythologies numeriques
topic Facebook
individual mythologies
social performance
representation of the self
public space
stereotypes
url https://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/2354
work_keys_str_mv AT magalinachtergael mythologiesindividuellesmythologiesnumeriques