Essay Proposal 1

I've lost the spare sheet I had to fill in, so I've recreated it on here.

Course Title: BA Fashion

Name of Critical Studies Tutor: Toby Juliff



Name: Natalie Dodd



Provisional Essay Title: Fashion and Identity in an online environment; how the internet has shaped fashion identities.



Main issues addressed by your essay and the thrust of your argument:

How internet has created new peer groups which affect peoples fashion. modern identity. we are influenced by people we havent met.



What visual material will you look at?
Websites such as lookbook.nu, fashion blogs,


What theoretical perspective/methodology will you use?
Identity

Which specific theorists/ writers will you refer to?
Bauman, Gauntlett


Books/articles/resources already located (using Harvard):

Bauman, Z (2001) Identity, (Cambridge: Polity)
Bauman, Z (2000) Liquid Modernity, (Cambridge: Polity)
Bell, D and Kennedy B (2000) The Cybercultures Reader, (London: Routledge)
Gauntlett, D and Horsley R (2000) Web.Studies, (London: Arnold)
Merchant, G Identity, Social Networks and Online Communication (2006) http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/validate.asp?j=elea&vol=3&issue=2&year=2006&article=9_Merchant_ELEA_3_2_web
http://www.Lookbook.nu