27/03/10

Egocasting in-between identities

‘Whatever I am, wherever I am, how does it matter?... why does it matter?’ egocasting in-between identities, Fred Dervin e Tanja Riikonen (University of Turku, Finland): « With the contemporary increased physical and virtual hypermobility, the emergence of“inbetween identities” and the number of intercultural narratives have increased immensely. This article is one of the first attempts to examine the construction of identities within the context of egocasting (i.e. broadcasting about one’s self) and intercultural inbetweenness through dialogism. Based on a linguistic dialogic and multivoiced approach to identification, we demonstrate how external voices (one’s own and those of others’) contribute to constructing selves and questioning them in episodes from three podcasts related to the topic of migration and identity.»