Representing Identity : Students' Homepages in Japan
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概要
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This study examines students' homepages in Japan and illustrates their representation of identity. The sites raise a number of complex questions. They are fashioned by young adults of Japanese ancestry who enrolled in an undergraduate program at a Japanese university. For the first time in their lives, many of them have come to the home country of their maternal grandparents. The participants' sites must thus be read in a larger context. At the same time, the distinct subculture of the university, which houses the students and their projections both figuratively and literally, also strongly influences modes of representation. Technical aspects further define the relation between these authors and their readers. A close reading of the pages reveals that the constructed identities are subject to specific national and corporate interests.