Author: Barbara Arca
Graduation Year: 2007
Advisor: Matthew Tinkcom. Ph.D.
Reader: Michael Coventry, Ph.D.
Date: 04 May 2007
Link to Thesis: BARBARA TESIS COMPLETA.pdf
Abstract
This project offers a critical overview of one of today’s most interesting phenomena online: MySpace. In it I engage in a Foucaultian analysis of this popular social networking site to see the ways in which MySpace resembles and acts as a disciplinary mechanism which contributes to the generation and perpetuation of normative gender identity discourses.