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The thesis investigates online disclosure of gender variance through a novel, interviews, and theoretical frameworks for personal and group identity. It links insights from neuroscience on the malleability of the self to how young people present themselves online. Where interpretive frameworks are lacking, emerging selfhood may become destabilised or impaired.","Morph  \nConstructing identity:  \nhow the experience of cyberspace contributes to the emerging story of self in young people.  \nJill Lesley Clough  \nThesis submitted towards the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of English Literature Language, and Linguistics Newcastle University April 2013  \nAwarded October 2013  \nSupervisors: Professor Linda Anderson, Professor Jackie Kay  \nAbstract for Morph. Constructing identity: how the experience of cyberspace contributes to the emerging story of self in young people.  \nThis thesis develops from the belief that young people construct identities for themselves which inevitably surprise their parents, particularly where so much of their coming-of-age is influenced by hidden virtual experiences.  \nThe novel which explores this is Morph. Joey, the protagonist, is uneasy about her gender. She has a loving family, intelligence, a satisfying way of life, but loathes her body. She investigates alternative futures, initially online. Her closest friend also has a secret, revealed after a suicide attempt that Joey averts: sexual abuse by her father. Each has to discover how to live with the evolving sense of self. If Joey wishes to change gender her character may alter, too; she finds she can be violent when confronting the abusive father. The story is told through Joey’s eyes and activities in cyberspace, which she thinks of as a free place, parallel to the mountains over which she loves to run. She feels at ease in both places. Eventually she decides to live as both male and female (Other) because she does not have a ‘condition ’ needing to be cured. Classification in the natural world allows for infinite variety, and she want similar opportunities for herself.  \nThe critical aspect of the thesis begins with those aspects of my experience which affect my conception of the narrative, including how, as a teacher, I drew upon insights from neuroscience about the malleability of the self. I analyse a series of interviews with young people about how they present themselves online. Since the trigger for the novel is online disclosure of gender variance, I explore what is available online, current medical attitudes and policies; I set the interview findings in the context of theoretical frameworks for personal and group identity.  \nI conclude that where young people lack frameworks for interpreting virtual experience, the emerging sense of self may be destabilised, or even impaired.  \nDedication  \nTo all those children and young people who have educated me  \nAcknowledgements  \nI can’t thank enough my two supervisors, Professor Linda Anderson and Professor Jackie Kay, firstly for their inspiration and secondly for their generous interest in what I was writing. Both have produced cracking good ideas when I needed them, helped me to keep things in perspective, and waved flags to point me on my way. I couldn’t have managed without them.  \nI am also indebted to my Annual Progress Review Readers over three years: Dr Andrew Crumey, Professor Bill Herbert, Professor Sean O’Brien and Tina Gharavi. Their feedback was invaluable, encouraging, thought-provoking.  \nI had a splendid time attending short courses that illuminated and informed my writing of Morph: thank you to Professor Jackie Kay (again), Ann Coburn, and Margaret Wilkinson.  \nThank you to dedicated personal readers, for patience, detailed feedback and warm encouragement: Viccy Adams, Isabel Clough, Alex Lockwood, Des O’Halloran, Jan Wiltshire.  \nFinally, thank you to the young people who volunteered to talk about their lives online, and to six young men at Heaton Manor School, Newcastle, who read Morph under the aegis of the Head of English, Lynn Kerr. The good-humoured and appreciative responses of all of them have been truly heartening.  \nTable of Contents  \nPart One  \nConstructing identity: how the experience of cyberspace contributes  \nto the emerging story of self in young people  \nChapter 1 Background to the narrative………………………………..1  \n","cbCaiajWbjg5CBj3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiajWbjg5CBj3","pdf",5625714,2,1,465,"English","en",105,"# Part One - Constructing identity: how the experience of cyberspace contributes to the emerging story of self in young people\n## Chapter 1 Background to the narrative\n## Chapter 2 Gender and identity\n## Chapter 3 Identity online: research findings\n## Chapter 4 Identity online: a wider context\n# Reference list\n# Bibliography\n# Appendix - Transcriptions of interviews with young people\n# Part Two - Morph\n## Mirror\n## Wall\n## Scar\n## Rock\n## Wilderness","[{\"question\":\"What central idea drives the Morph thesis?\",\"answer\":\"The thesis argues that young people construct identities shaped by virtual experiences, which may surprise parents because much of that coming-of-age remains hidden.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the thesis use the novel Morph in its analysis?\",\"answer\":\"Morph uses Joey’s experiences—especially online investigation of alternative futures—to explore gender unease, evolving selfhood, and the relationship between cyberspace and identity.\"},{\"question\":\"What research method informs the thesis’s conclusions?\",\"answer\":\"The thesis analyses interviews with young people about how they present themselves online, interpreting findings through frameworks of personal and group identity and drawing on neuroscience-related insights about self malleability.\"}]","Morph - 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