dc.contributor.author
Erbentraut, Luise
dc.date.accessioned
2022-11-29T07:05:02Z
dc.date.available
2022-11-29T07:05:02Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/37038
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-36752
dc.description.abstract
Virtual and Artificial YouTubers (VTubers) show us how the body becomes technologically embedded. They reveal arising complexities within the interface of digital and analog assemblies, bodies, and virtual environments. Thus, VTubers raise questions that are crucial to the core debate about personhood and the human subject in anthropology as well as critical posthumanism. By reading Feminist Anthropology and Critical Posthumanism dos-à-dos, the thesis engages with the three VTubers AI Angelica, CodeMiko, and Miquela Sousa. To answer the questions (1) how personhood unfolds in the VTubers’ self-representation(s), (2) how personhood is negotiated with the recipients, and (3) which aspects of the human subject (e.g., gender, race) are reproduced a methodological framework of Netnography and Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis is applied. The thesis reveals that VTubers’ show a form of personhood in which the reflective self appears and speaks apart from the ‘I.’ This division reflects practices of self-designation in order to navigate between the extended self and the divided self; the content creator and the avatar; between the platform and the VTuber. This way, the self manifests itself simultaneously in the form of overlaps and displacements. Within this form of relationality, the notion of the glitch is reviewed to consider the VTuber’s personhood in respect of the discussion between critical posthumanist and humanist perspectives.
en
dc.format.extent
vi, 68 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject
Virtual YouTubers
en
dc.subject
Artificial YouTubers
en
dc.subject
Digital Ethnography
en
dc.subject
Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis
en
dc.subject
Critical Posthumanism
en
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::301 Soziologie, Anthropologie
dc.title
Glitching the (Post-)Human
dc.identifier.urn
urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-refubium-37038-0
dc.title.subtitle
Virtual YouTubers’ Self-Representation Between Extended and Divided Self
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
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refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
yes
dcterms.accessRights.dnb
free
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access