The online identity : towards a hermeneutic phenomenological approach Barbour, Kim 2012, The online identity : towards a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, in Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Australasia 2012 : Building, Mapping, Connecting, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, [Canberra, A. C. T.]. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The online identity : towards a hermeneutic phenomenological approach Author(s) Barbour, Kim Conference name Digital Humanities Australasia. Conference (2012 : Canberra, A. C. T.) Conference location Canberra, A. C. T. Conference dates 28-30 Mar. 2012 Title of proceedings Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Australasia 2012 : Building, Mapping, Connecting Editor(s) [Unknown] Publication date 2012 Conference series Digital Humanities Australasia. Conference Publisher Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Place of publication [Canberra, A. C. T.] Keyword(s) phenomenology persona artist online identity Summary In order to better understand how artists working in countercultural or ‘fringe’ creative practice use social media to create online persona I am using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to investigate the lived experience of both online and offline persona creation by tattoo artists, street artists, craftivists, and slam poets. The use of phenomenology to investigate artists’ lived experience is particularly appropriate, as ‘artists are involved in giving shape to their lived experience, the products of art are, in a sense, lived experienced transformed into transcended configurations’ (Van Manen 2006: 74). This paper will outline the methodological underpinnings of this project, using these underpinnings to explore the benefits offered by phenomenology to internet studies. Understanding how people use online social media sites to construct personas can benefit greatly from understanding the lived experience of those who use these technologies, the decisions they make in persona construction, and the online/offline, public/private continuums. A phenomenological approach ‘seeks to revel and richly portray the nature of human phenomena and the experiences of those who live through them’ (Grace & Ajjawi 2010: 197) and offers both the researchers and the participants a way to interrogate and interpret the experience of constructing online personas. A phenomenological approach allows for ‘an intimate awareness and deep understanding’ (Saldana, Leavy & Bertvas 2011: 8) of the experience of persona construction in online and offline spaces, and could equally be used to interrogate other aspects of internet use.  Language eng Field of Research 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies 200212 Screen and Media Culture Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture HERDC Research category EN Other conference paper HERDC collection year 2012 Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30050600 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 18 Feb 2013, 09:06:21 EST Mon, 18 Feb 2013, 09:07:12 EST Mon, 18 Feb 2013, 14:47:54 EST Thu, 21 Feb 2013, 08:16:50 EST Thu, 21 Feb 2013, 08:17:46 EST Thu, 21 Feb 2013, 08:23:54 EST Thu, 21 Feb 2013, 10:39:56 EST Mon, 25 Feb 2013, 11:04:38 EST Mon, 25 Feb 2013, 11:12:58 EST Wed, 17 Sep 2014, 20:22:20 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 340 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 18 Feb 2013, 09:06:20 EST by Kim Barbour