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Camgirls

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This book is a critical and ethnographic study of camgirls: women who broadcast themselves over the web for the general public while trying to cultivate a measure of celebrity in the process. The book’s over-arching question is, «What does it mean for feminists to speak about the personal as political in a networked society that encourages women to ‘represent’ through confession, celebrity, and sexual display, but punishes too much visibility with conservative censure and backlash?» The narrative follows that of the camgirl phenomenon, beginning with the earliest experiments in personal homecamming and ending with the newest forms of identity and community being articulated through social networking sites like Live Journal, YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook. It is grounded in interviews, performance analysis of events transpiring between camgirls and their viewers, and the author’s own experiences as an ersatz camgirl while conducting the research.

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ISBN: 9780820456942
Publication date: 2nd July 2008
Author: Theresa M Senft
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 152 pages
Series: Digital Formations
Genres: Writing and editing guides
Regional / International studies
Gender studies: women and girls
Social and cultural anthropology
Public relations