From Authenticity to Profilicity

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. D’Ambrosio ◽  
Hans-Georg Moeller
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Second Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World

Abstract Roberto Simanowski’s work reflects on how the internet transforms understandings of ourselves, others, and the world—or our “identity.” Three concepts inform his analysis: instant selves, the idea that algorithms automatically create narratives for the self; episodic selves, living as tourists from one experience to the next; and Facebook eye, seeing the world in terms of garnering “likes.” These notions point to a deeper change in identity construction that is undermining the age of authenticity. In an age of profile-based identity or “profilicity,” society operates with second-order observation, generating a need to present oneself with an appeal to general peer groups, which vary by forum. Critiques of the online world that Simanowski and others articulate tend to neglect the larger social environment and focus too narrowly on the internet while applying a somewhat anachronistic authenticity-based theoretical framework.

The Dynamics of Society-in-the-Self

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hubert J. M Hermans
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
The Self ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
The World ◽  
Self And Identity ◽  
New Vision ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
The Relationship

In the field of tension between globalization and localization, a set of new phenomena is emerging showing that society is not simply a social environment of self and identity but works in their deepest regions: self-radicalization, self-government, self-cure, self-nationalization, self-internationalization, and even self-marriage. The consequence is that the self is faced with an unprecedented density of self-parts, called I-positions in this theory. In the field of tension between boundary-crossing developments in the world and the search for an identity in a local niche, a self emerges that is characterized by a great variety of contradicting and heterogeneous I-positions and by large and unexpected jumps between different positions as the result of rapid and unexpected changes in the world. The chapter argues that such developments require a new vision of the relationship between self and society.

FASHION BLOGGERS AS CELEBRITY EXPERTS IN RUSSIAN-SPOKEN SEGMENT OF SOCIAL MEDIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Zemfira K. Salamova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
The World

Social media has contributed to the spread of fashion, style or lifestyle blogging around the world. This study focuses on self-presentation strategies of Russian-speaking fashion bloggers. Its objects are Instagram accounts and YouTube channels of two Russian fashion bloggers: Alexander Rogov and Karina Nigay. The study also observes their appearances as guests in various interview shows on YouTube. Alexander Rogov received his initial fame through his television projects. Karina Nigay achieved popularity online on YouTube and Instagram, therefore she is a “pure” example of Internet celebritiy, whose rise to fame took place on the Internet. The article includes the following objectives 1) to study the self-branding of fashion bloggers on various online platforms; 2) to analyze the construction of fashion bloggers’ expert positions and its role in their personal brands. Turning to fashion blogging allows us to consider how its representatives build their personal brands and establish themselves as experts in the field of fashion and style in Russianlanguage social media.

Hurry Up and Wait: Oppositional Compliance and Networking around the State in Kuwait

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Media Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World

In Chapter 4, data collected through ethnographic research and structured interviews are used to argue that new media tools when used, can profoundly alter social and political practices in Kuwait. Internet use removes inhibitions, gives the public a voice, encourages people to demand access to current, transparent news and information, and enables citizens to become more engaged and active in the world. In the words of one 55 year old female Kuwaiti participant, the Internet “opens the eyes of the younger generation and because of this, they find more freedom to exercise and they can compare freedom in their countries to that in other countries” (Interview, July 2009, Kuwait City). Explanations for the increasingly volatile political and social environment in Kuwait are explored in light of new media use. The persistence of patriarchy in spite of enhanced civic engagement reveals the puzzling nature of oppositional compliance in the emirate.

Moving Signs

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-80
Author(s):  
Tony Perman
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Self ◽  
The World ◽  
Semiotic Phenomenology ◽  
The Impact

The chapter explains the theoretical framework that guides the analysis in subsequent chapters and introduces a model for understanding emotional experience rooted in the semiotic phenomenology of C. S Peirce. This model allows for the explication of diverse modes of experience and explains the impact of habits and values in the interpretation of signs during ceremonial performance. As selves and interpersonal relationships are implicated in semiosis, experience becomes affective, linking perceptual, physiological, cultural, and public judgments in ongoing processes and projects of future-oriented flourishing. This four-step sequence---affect, emotion-appraisal, feeling, emotive is grounded in the self and its place in the world.

Reflection

2021 ◽  
pp. 172-178
Author(s):  
Janet Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Second Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Object Level

Contemporary psychology has explored the concept of the self in relation to the second order characteristics of metacognition. On the dominant theoretical framework, cognitive processes are taken to be split into two specifically interrelated levels called the object level and the metalevel, with the latter monitoring and controlling the former. The metalevel is thought to be self referential. For example, retrieving an answer to a question, or making a response to a cue, at the object level, does not involve reflection and is not self-referential. By contrast, judgments about whether the response was or was not true, or about whether one would be able to remember the response later entails second-order or metalevel processing, and it thought to be self-referential and to involve consciousness. This Reflection presents some of recent work on self-referential thought in humans. It also reviews studies of the neurological basis of these judgments, and investigations which have sought to determine whether any animals other than humans have this capacity.

The ‘Aura’ of Home

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dima Issa
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
And Migration

Abstract In Arabic restaurants, sitting rooms and cars around the world, her voice filters through the airwaves, transporting listeners to narrow alleyways, cobblestones and the Mediterranean Sea, to a time of innocence and peace, determination and war, stability and acceptance. Her songs, melancholy memory and patriotic love shape Arab heritage and offer a focal point for identity construction. For many Arabs in the diaspora, Fairouz’s music is a tool of expression, a proxy for nostalgia and a call for resistance. Through a theoretical framework that combines affect, the mnemonic imagination and migration, I highlight the preliminary findings of my PhD research. This research involves a series of interviews with members of the Arab diaspora living in Doha, Qatar. I examine the role Fairouz’s music played in the lives of these interview subjects.

Data’s Intimacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 76-113
Author(s):  
Sun-ha Hong
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Smart Machines ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Better Than

Today, machines observe, record, and sense the world—not just for us but also often instead of us and indifferently to our meaning. The intertwined problems of technological knowledge and (our) knowledge of technology manifest in the growing industry of smart machines, the Internet of Things, and other means for self-tracking. The automation of the care of the self is buoyed by a popular fantasy of data’s intimacy, of machines that know you better than yourself. Yet as the technology becomes normalized, the hacker ethic gives way to a market-driven shift in which more and more of “my” personal truth is colonized by machines (and the people behind the machines) that I cannot question.

Technology Disruption in the Time of the Digital Ecosystem Society's Adoption

2022 ◽  
pp. 238-255
Author(s):  
Desi Setiana ◽  
Siti Norsarah ◽  
Norainna Besar ◽  
Tiro Anna ◽  
Marlina Nasution ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Social Pressure ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Cyber Bullying ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Ecosystem ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

The internet and technologies are revolving around the world today. Most of the people around this world have access to the internet easily nowadays; it can lead to a most common and dangerous problem, which is cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is considered as a crime which usually occurs among the young people. Cases from cyberbullying have shown that there is a growing significantly which is becoming a worrying topic for the societies to be aware of. This study revealed cyberbullying teen actors involved within the area of Jakarta. The result is very interesting. Parents play a vital role to the teens as they will become a support for them (actor and victim) and also peer groups give the high impact of the actors to conduct cyberbullying to another group. Much cyberbullying happens for the same reasons as any other form of bullying. Generally, the cyber bullies act in such manner due to them being insecure, to gain popularity, social pressure, and jealousy as well as personal grudges.

scholarly journals O Marco Civil da Internet e a Ciência da Informação: uma discussão sobre os softwares livres AtoM e Archivematica | The Internet Civil Rights Framework and Information Science: a discussion of AtoM and Archivematica software

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria José Vicentini Jorente ◽  
Natalia Nakano ◽  
Talita Cristina Da Silva ◽  
Lucinéia Da Silva Batista
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Information Design ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Information And Technology

RESUMO O Marco Civil da Internet do Brasil é a primeira legislação do mundo a regular a internet de forma ampla e irrestrita; e respeita os princípios da internet complexa, aberta e sustentável. Define-se assim a problemática deste artigo: de que maneira a Ciência da Informação (CI) se insere no que preconiza o Marco Civil? Este estudo apresenta referencial teórico sobre o que preconiza o Marco Civil, relacionando-o com a CI, e então introduz dois exemplos de software livre que podem contribuir com a sua efetivação. Conclui que a CI não pode ficar alijada das discussões sobre o Marco, e sugere, para estudos futuros, investigações que reflitam sobre o design de ambientes digitais em que estão depositadas informações para acesso, e sua relação com o que reza o Marco Civil da Internet.Palavras-chave: Informação e Tecnologia; Web 2.0; AtoM; Archivematica; Design da Informação.ABSTRACT The Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet is the first legislation in the world to regulate the Internet broadly and non-restrictively; and it respects the principles of complex, sustainable, open Internet. The research problem of this article is: how is Information Science (IS) contemplated in the legal recommendations? This study presents a theoretical framework on what the Civil Rights Framework advocates, relating it to IS, and then presents two examples of open software that can contribute to its operationalization. The study concludes that IS cannot be excluded from the discussions on the Framework and suggests, for further studies, investigations that reflect on the design of digital environments in which information is deposited and its relation to the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet.Keywords: Information and Technology; Web 2.0; AtoM;Archivematica; Information Design.

scholarly journals The aesthetics of participation.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Tekatch
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Self ◽  
Relevant Feature ◽  
Charles Olson ◽  
Interactive Process ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Stan Brakhage

"In this paper I would like to articulate a mode of perceptual participation, primarily an aesthetic mode, whereby humans enter into relation with the natural world around them. In order to elaborate on the mode of this participation I will draw examples from artists and thinkers that I believe have determined to make the notion of 'participation' an integral part of their work. The purpose of this paper is to situate my project in a larger tradition and theoretical framework. Over the last two years of study I have been drawn to a number of artists and thinkers who have influenced me a great deal. The common feature among them, or the relevant feature to me, has been the theme of the interaction between the self and the world, the organism and the environment, to use John Dewey's terminology, and how this interaction speaks of humanity's carnal and perceptual inherence in the world. Among these artists are Charles Olson, Jack Chambers and Stan Brakhage, and I would like to discuss their work in relation to this interactive process of self and world."--Pages 2-3.

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