ABSTRACT A paradox of drawing attention to violations of one’s privacy is that one must publicly detail what has happened. The targeted individual (TI) community is sustained by this very tension, voluminously producing media detailing what they believe is state surveillance. “TI” is a self-descriptor used by members of an online community to denote when a person believes they personally are being subject to organized harassment. Through treating the TI community as exemplifying broader patterns of self-publication on digital platforms, I argue that one explanation for continued investment in digital platforms is that it provides users with a sense of possession over their identities, allowing them to present themselves as they believe they are desired by the Other. This is achieved through an analysis of several examples of TI media grounded in the Lacanian concepts of the yieldable object, anxiety, and metonymy. The yieldable object refers to a media object that has been elevated to a status that is coextensive with the subject. Following my analysis, I suggest that scholars should consider adopting the yieldable object when assessing self-publication on platforms.

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传播自己：目标个人、可产出的对象和数字平台上的自我出版

摘要 提请注意侵犯个人隐私的悖论是，人们必须公开详细说明所发生的事情。目标个人 (TI) 社区受到这种非常紧张的影响，大量制作媒体详细说明他们认为是国家监视。“TI”是一个自我描述词，在线社区的成员使用它来表示一个人认为他们个人何时受到有组织的骚扰。通过将 TI 社区视为数字平台上更广泛的自我出版模式的例证，我认为对数字平台持续投资的一种解释是它为用户提供了对其身份的归属感，使他们能够按照自己的想法展示自己他们是他者所希望的。这是通过对基于可屈服对象、焦虑和转喻的拉康概念的 TI 媒体的几个例子的分析来实现的。可屈服对象是指已被提升到与主体共同扩展的状态的媒体对象。根据我的分析，我建议学者在评估平台上的自我出版时应该考虑采用可产出的对象。