Skumle identiteter - repræsentation og regulering på netsamfundet

Abstract

Denne opgave har til formål at se nærmere på individets identitetsdannelse og -regulering i forhold til sub-mainstream relationen. Dette gøres gennem en analyse af det danskbaserede netsamfund Skum.I forståelsen af dette forhold trækker opgaven på Bourdieus Habitus-begreb, post-strukturalistisk narrativitetsteori, diskursteori og endelig post-subkulturelle studier. Forholdet mellem substream og mainstream forstås her som flydende, idet de temporære substream netværk forståes som indeholdt i den hybride mainstream.For at begribe de multiple identiteter og forskellen i investeringen i disse, inddrager projektet begrebet Inkluderende Identitet, hvorved det bliver muligt at sammenkæde de i narrativen inddragede diskurser med individets positionering i forhold til sub-mainstream relationen.Gennem begrebet Inkluderende Identitet bliver det således muligt at inddrage alle de interessefelter individet indgår i uanset graden af individets tilknytning hertil. Herigennem inddrages både stil og smag i forståelsen af identitetsdannelsen.Gennem analysen af individer der deltager på en række forskellige debatter (interessefelter) på Skum, kortlægger opgaven først individernes repræsentation på profilerne, og dernæst individernes ageren på debatterne og reguleringen heraf i relation til ændringer i individernes repræsentation på profilerne. Herigennem optegner projektet en række af mulige positioner på de forskellige felter samt et hierarki af positioner på felterne.

This project aims to understand the individual’s construction, representation and regulationof identity in relation to the fluent transition between the hybrid mainstream and the temporarysubstreamnetworkswithin. In doing so, the study draws on a combination of Bourdieu’sconcept of Habitus, poststructuralist understanding of the narrative, discourse theory, andfinally postsubculturalstudies.Substreams are thus understood as fields within the mainstream, where individualsposition themselves through representation and actions. The actions of the individuals onthese fields can be understood through the concept of Habitus as a structured and structuringstructure through the continuous collection of experience and action based upon it. In understandingthis collection and reconsideration of experience, it is in this project assumed that itis necessary to draw on the concept of narrative as a story of life. As a result of the multipleidentities, the individual draws on several discourses in the construction of the narrative. Inorder to comprehend these multiple identities and the difference in investment in these, theproject introduces the concept of Including Identity, through which it becomes possible tocorrelate the discourses the narrative draws upon, and the position of the individual withinthe submainstreamrelation. It’s thereby possible to map the position and regulation of theindividual through the mapping of the discoursive moments that the narrative is constructedthrough.Through this concept of Including Identity, all the interest fields of the individualregardless of the strength of relation is drawn upon in order to establish all the differentaspects of the individual’s identity. By doing so, the concepts of style and taste are includedin the understanding of identity.The object of study is the Danish based internet community Skum consisting of anumber of different theme based discussion forums. The project thus maps first the representationof the chosen individuals participating on various fields (debates), and second the actionsof the individuals on the debates and regulation thereof in relation to the changes inrepresentation. Through this the project establishes possible combinations of positioning ondifferent fields as well as a hierarchy of types of positions within the fields.