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Camgirls: Celebrity and community in the age of social networks, by Theresa M. Senft
> Review http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/120/120
"what it means for feminists to speak of the personal as political in the age of networks" (115).
>REVIEW http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/120/120
>>2009
defines politics as "leveraging of power between connected entities"
political and personal—make commentators forget to analyze and understand the political values of personal blogs and of other online network/community-building tools, exemplified here by Webcamming (that is, dramatizing one's life and views on the Web with a camera)
ideology of publicity, for camgirls: theatrical authenticity, self branding, microcelebrity
identity amounts to little more than a series of performances directed to particular audiences in our lives.
celebrities are commodities masquerading as people, while those engaged in microcelebrity are people experimenting with branding themselves as commodities, a point that the author discusses in chapter
inherently transformative online aesthetic of the "grab," which allows viewers/consumers to take what they want and rework or discard the rest, makes Webcamming a relentlessly confrontational activity.
emotional labour - how much can a camgirl have in common with other first and third world emotional labourers who don’t broadcast on the web?
"tele-ethicality": that is, to "engage, rather than forestall action in our mediated communities, despite the potential for fakery and fraud"
> Senft refers to Haraway's usage of the word cyborg in discussing a pornographic ideology, defined as the belief that specific, feminized bodies ought to be scapegoats for shifting relationships between public and private in a culture—even if this definition seems to describe a social interpretation of the phenomenon, and not the phenomenon per se. >>??
throughout history, women have responded to their exclusion from the public sphere by establishing counter–public places where democracy is regularly critiqued and strengthened. Camgirls specifically resist the intimate public sphere through performance, creating networks through what is called "strange familiarity"—that is, the familiarity arising from exchanging private information with otherwise remote strangers.
According to the concept of ethical narcissism, if the author of a blog (or any other personal space on the Web) accepts the possibility of interaction with a network, as opposed to a purely nonconfrontational exposition, the narcissistic practice of personal blogs can become ethical in the sense that it becomes dialectic and creates the opportunity to spread a dialogue beyond the established network in which it was originally formulated.
Camgirls is an innovative take on the ethics of rules building in online communities. The book makes a strong point of showing the fallacy of naive beliefs in the not-political nature of narcissism and pornography, two positions stereotypically associated with camgirls and in general with developing personal spaces online.
>> First, tele-ethicality allows women to have a stronger political impact on the Web, and it helps build a larger and more significant arena for micropolitics. Second, activism can spring from spaces not designed for political action but that end up facilitating it, such as Web communities based on the ostensibly personal practice of Webcamming.
it provides an ethical theorization of community building online filtered through a feminist point of view
Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism edited by Anita Harris
http://books.google.ca/books?id=hOVIXxLfqOUC&pg=PT143&lpg=PT143&dq=camgirl+art&source=bl&ots=en-4HNN620&sig=oMX_5i7UVHvPn6lltq0BBzJv41Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SA4jVKaoKoWNyATR7oGQDg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=camgirl%20art&f=false
> camgirl archetypes
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