Transformative processes of agency: information technologies and the production of digitally mediated selves

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Tucker, I., Ellis, D. and Harper, D. 2012. Transformative processes of agency: information technologies and the production of digitally mediated selves. Kultūra ir visuomenė: socialinių tyrimų žurnalas [Culture and Society: Journal of Social Research]. 3 (1), pp. 9-24.
AuthorsTucker, I., Ellis, D. and Harper, D.
Abstract

New media technologies are becoming an increasingly prominent constituent of everyday living, with their proliferation presenting new challenges to key aspects of the self, namely agency and identity. )e potential recalibration of these notions comes about through new forms of agency being produced when information technologies play an increasingly powerful role in our lives. In this context agency is not something that can be reified and easily measured, or understood as solely intentional human action. Instead, agency is understood as something that comes to be as practices of life making.
We take up these ideas in relation to people’s experiences with information technologies. Through semi-structured interviews with members of the public from London and the South East of the UK, we analyse how information technologies potentially recalibrate people’s subjectivity through informational agency. Participants’ engagements with information technologies are more nuanced and complex than a ‘either good or bad’ distinction. This is one of the analytic foci of the paper, as information technologies,
even when viewed with suspicion or as creating concern, are often willfully utilised due to the perceived
benefits they can bring. We focus on the potential technologisation of identity and subjectivity through
arguing that new forms of digitally mediated selves are produced when daily lives come to be defined
more by information than by the flesh and blood of our bodies. We conclude by drawing attention to
challenges facing our experiences, and understandings of, subjectivity brought about by the relentless
informationalisation of life.

Keywordsinformation societies; agency; surveillance
JournalKultūra ir visuomenė: socialinių tyrimų žurnalas [Culture and Society: Journal of Social Research]
Journal citation3 (1), pp. 9-24
ISSN2029–4573
Year2012
PublisherVytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
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Sholl, C., Korkie, J. and Harper, D. 2009. Working with young people to challenge discrimination against mental health service users: a psychosocial pilot study. Clinical Psychology Forum. 196, pp. 45-49. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpscpf.2009.1.196.45
Preface: Learning from Our Work
Harper, D. 2009. Preface: Learning from Our Work. in: Stedmon, J and Dallos, R (ed.) Reflective Practice in Psychotherapy and Counselling Maidenhead Open University Press. pp. vii-xiii
Narrative therapy, family therapy and history
Harper, D. 2009. Narrative therapy, family therapy and history. Context: A Magazine for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice. 102 (April), pp. 17-18.
The politics of paranoia: paranoid positioning and conspiratorial narratives in the surveillance society
Harper, D. 2008. The politics of paranoia: paranoid positioning and conspiratorial narratives in the surveillance society. Surveillance & Society. 5 (1), pp. 1-32. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v5i1.3437
Diagnosis special issue - Introduction: Moving beyond diagnosis: Practising what we preach
Cromby, J., Harper, D. and Reavey, P. 2007. Diagnosis special issue - Introduction: Moving beyond diagnosis: Practising what we preach. The Psychologist. 20 (5), p. 289.
Diagnosis special issue - Part 6: Don’t jump ship! New approaches in teaching mental health to undergraduates
Harper, D., Cromby, J., Reavey, P., Cooke, A. and Anderson, J. 2007. Diagnosis special issue - Part 6: Don’t jump ship! New approaches in teaching mental health to undergraduates. The Psychologist. 20 (5), pp. 302-304.
The Complicity of Psychology in the Security State
Harper, D. 2007. The Complicity of Psychology in the Security State. in: Roberts, R. (ed.) Just War: Psychology and Terrorism Ross-on-Wye PCCS Books. pp. 15-45
Poverty and Discourse
Harper, D. 2003. Poverty and Discourse. in: Carr, S. C. and Sloan, T. S. (ed.) Poverty and Psychology: From Global Perspective to Local Practice Springer. pp. 185-203
The tyranny of expert language
Harper, D. 2002. The tyranny of expert language. Open Mind. 113, pp. 8-9.
When the drugs don’t work
Harper, D. 2002. When the drugs don’t work. Open Mind. 114, p. 8.
Moving beyond the tyranny of experts
Harper, D. 2002. Moving beyond the tyranny of experts. Open Mind. 115, pp. 20-21.