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Taking a close look at ordinary people ´telling their own story´, Nancy Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums.

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Introduction: Self-Representation and Digital Culture Histories of Self-Representation Mediation Broadcasters Museums and Art Worlds Self-Representation Online Self-Representation, Digital Culture and Genre Bibliography Endnotes Index

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"Altogether, Thumin has produced a valuable study, full of insight and observation, of the multiple ways in which ´ordinary´ people represent their ´ordinariness´ through representing themselves, speaking about their lives, giving expression to their experiences. She attends to all this in a cohesive and integrated manner, offering us a highly satisfactory account of selfrepresentations

in digital culture." - European Journal of Communication 28(6)

"Thumim´s first book is eloquently written and well-researched, and it manages to effectively distill and relay the ideas of complex and emerging topics. The work interrogates the meaning of truth, authenticity, and validity with regards to self-representation. Undergraduate and graduate students in media and communication studies would benefit from this highly enjoyable read, which is also scholarly, rigorous, in-depth, and precise." - International Journal of Communication 7, (2013)

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Nancy Thumim is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK. Thumim´s research has been published in edited books and journals including Critical Discourse Studies, Javnost - The Public, and International Journal of Cultural Studies.

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