Essay Proposal 2

Provisional Essay Title:
Lookbook.nu; A case study of fashion identity and peer influence in an online environment.

Main Issues addressed by your essay and the thrust of your argument:
Using the internet to 'create' different identities. Acceptance by online peers. Influencing and being influenced by people you have never met in person. Identities new meaning in the modern era. The difference between a fashion identity and a personal one. Using others identities as your own.

What visual material will you look at?
Lookbook.nu, fashion blogs.

What theoretical perspective/methodology will you use?
Identity

What specific theorists will you refer to?
Bauman, Gauntlett, Dencik, Krueger

Books/Articles/Resources already located (using Havard)

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 (2008) Media, Gender and Identity: an Introduction, (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/
 
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