Theory in a Digital Age: A Project of English 483 Students, Coastal Carolina University Main Menu Theory in a Digital Age Remediation This chapter will showcase how the remaking of art can leave its impact. Cornel West and Black Lives Matter MacKenzie McKeithan-Prickett Determination in Gaming The Mind Set and Experience The Hope for a Monstrous World Without Gender Introduction to "A Cyborg Manifesto" and Thesis Freud's Uncanny Double: A Theoretical Study of the Portrayal of Doubles in Film This chapter of the book will look at the history of the theme of the "double" using Freud's Uncanny as the theoretical insight of the self perception of the double in film/cinema. From Literacy to Electracy: Resistant Rhetorical Bodies in Digital Spaces Ashley Canter "Eddy and Edith": Online Identities vs. Offline Identities A fictional story about online identities and offline identities. (Also a mash-up video between Eddy and Edith and Break Free.) “Pieces of Herself”: Key Signifiers and Their Connotations Is the Sonographic Fetus a Cyborg? How sonographic technology initiates gendered socialization Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Digital Laborer Paradox of Race Dr. Cornel West, W.E.B Du Bois, and Natasha Trethewey Sleep Dealer - Digital Labor By Melissa Harby The Kevin Spacey Effect: Video Games as an Art Form, the Virtual Uncanny, and the Simulacrum The Twilight Zone in the Uncanny Valley Introduction The Virtual Economy and The Dark Web How Our Economy is Changing Behind the Scenes Transgender Representation and Acceptance in the Mainstream How the trans* movement has caused and exemplifies the spectralization of gender A Voice for the Humanities in A Divided America Dr. Cornel West on the indifference in our society and how he thinks the humanities can help heal it Reading Between the Lines: Diversity and Empowerment in Comics

Step Three: Application to the Reader

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Once the reader has experienced each room, the outside spaces, and all the objects it offers; the doll is full. Now the doll has a different connotation. She is full, she is different and colorful, but does she have meaning? That all depends on the connotation associated to each item found and the reader’s own decision whether to drag the object into the doll. The reader is given a choice. Through interactivity, the reader is given power in the outcome of the story.

These three signifiers are not the only ones the reader is allowed to experience. Everything from the sound, the position of the objects in the room, the timing in which they are revealed, and the shapes and colors have meanings. This is where the line becomes blurry between affective personal and connotation. Yes, the doll is prefaced by Davis explaining a crisis in identity. However, it is hard for the reader to focus on the idea of “feminine embodiment” when the reader is now a part of a “hyper-reality” and he or she becomes the doll. The simulation of private and public space transcends into the reader’s own primary and secondary discourses. Although there are clear connotations throughout the game, Davis is able to relate her theme to the reader while connecting with the reader on a personal and resonating level.

So what does a representative doll have to do with you? The idea of identity is tremendously relevant and personal to each American in the moment we find ourselves in. Especially with the division our country is in with our “political identity” defining us on a deeply, personal level. Through my own interaction, I felt a personal connection to the doll in “Pieces of Herself” and agree with the theory it presents: it’s the people, objects and ideas you surround yourself with that defines you as a person- not your gender, race, or even political views.

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  1. “Pieces of Herself”: Key Signifiers and Their Connotations Vannah Scarborough