This afternoon's session was a knockout. Liesbet Van Zoonen's keynote, 'From identity to fragmentation: fixating the fragmented self,' was brought together a heap of information which I was at least vaguely familiar with into new configurations, making important connections between the commodification of identity on social networking sites, the policing of identity by the state, … Continue reading IR13 Plenaries: identity, humanity, affective news, and the department of shameless studies →