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Article: Individuality or conformity? Identity in personal and university academic homepages
Title | Individuality or conformity? Identity in personal and university academic homepages |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Academic discourse Discourse analysis Homepages Identity Multimodal texts |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Publisher | Elsevier Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/compcom |
Citation | Computers and Composition, 2012, v. 29 n. 4, p. 309–322 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The connection between writing and identity has been a subject of academic interest for some time and there is now broad agreement that identity is created from the texts we engage in and the semiotic choices we make. In this view, the process of constructing an identity most clearly involves selecting materials to present to others, a process which is seen most directly in personal homepages. It has become almost obligatory for academics to maintain some kind of online presence, although these homepages can also serve the university in several ways and therefore suppresses more personal facets of identity and act to position the author as an employee. As a result, many academics seek to escape the bland uniformity of the university personal page to present a more multi-faceted identity in a self-managed homepage. This paper explores the this relatively neglected area of composition to show how identity is discursively constructed in a corpus of 100 homepages of 50 academics, one university-managed and the other personally created. Focusing on textual content, design, links and photographs, I contrast some of the ways that academics elect to represent themselves as academics in these two environments. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/183959 |
ISSN | 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.703 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Hyland, KL | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-18T04:33:27Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-18T04:33:27Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Computers and Composition, 2012, v. 29 n. 4, p. 309–322 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 8755-4615 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/183959 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The connection between writing and identity has been a subject of academic interest for some time and there is now broad agreement that identity is created from the texts we engage in and the semiotic choices we make. In this view, the process of constructing an identity most clearly involves selecting materials to present to others, a process which is seen most directly in personal homepages. It has become almost obligatory for academics to maintain some kind of online presence, although these homepages can also serve the university in several ways and therefore suppresses more personal facets of identity and act to position the author as an employee. As a result, many academics seek to escape the bland uniformity of the university personal page to present a more multi-faceted identity in a self-managed homepage. This paper explores the this relatively neglected area of composition to show how identity is discursively constructed in a corpus of 100 homepages of 50 academics, one university-managed and the other personally created. Focusing on textual content, design, links and photographs, I contrast some of the ways that academics elect to represent themselves as academics in these two environments. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/compcom | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Computers and Composition | en_US |
dc.rights | NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Computers and Composition. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Computers and Composition, 2012, v. 29 n. 4, p. 309–322. DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2012.10.002 | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Academic discourse | - |
dc.subject | Discourse analysis | - |
dc.subject | Homepages | - |
dc.subject | Identity | - |
dc.subject | Multimodal texts | - |
dc.title | Individuality or conformity? Identity in personal and university academic homepages | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Hyland, KL: khyland@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Hyland, KL=rp01133 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.compcom.2012.10.002 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84869033686 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 214497 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 29 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 309 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 322 | en_US |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1873-2011 | - |