The document discusses playful embodiment and identity performance on the internet through the use of self-produced photos. It explores how users construct their identity based on interacting and performing using photos of their own body, which is one of the main objects photographed. Examples given include body-blogs and ego-logs where people play with routines, audiences, and present their body and sexuality as a commodity. The practices seem playful through digital image manipulation, posing games, and diverse contextualization of images.

1. The following presentation is restricted. Viewer discretion is advice: It contains nudity and some academic thoughts

2. Playful embodiment and identity performance on Internet Edgar Gómez Elisenda Ardèvol Adolfo Estalella Internet Interdisciplinary Institute Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Internet Research 8.0: Let's Play Vancouver, 17-20 October, 2007

3. From disembodied identities…

4. To “fleshy” identities….

5. Body image Ubiquitous Camera presence Social software platforms Interactional Practices =

7. Body-blogs and Ego-Logs

9. Daily record of: -Sleep hours -Food consumed in breakfast, lunch and dinner -Exercise Done -Food between meals -Dental Hygiene -Medicines Plays with an “audience” Plays with her body and her sexuality as a commodity

10. - Identity consumption - Social bonds based on the photo sharing and comments.

11. Underline These embodiment practices seem to occur in a playful way, either using the possibilities of the digital treatment of images, or with the constant and complex game of posing; the use of inter-textual references, or setting the images in wide and different contexts. What it seems a trivial practice at the beginning, becomes an elaborated process of setting a stage. We have called this practice “Playful Embodiment”. Which is in fact a set of different and interlinked practices where the body is central.

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