COMS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Firstsite, Schizophrenia, Shock Tactics

• School: McGill University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 210
• Professor: cayley sorochan

Document Summary

Lifestreaming (marwick: lifestreaming: ongoing sharing of personal information to a networked audience; the creation of a digital (cid:577)(cid:576)(cid:579)(cid:581)(cid:579)(cid:562)(cid:570)(cid:581) (cid:576)(cid:567) (cid:576)(cid:575)(cid:566)"(cid:580) (cid:562)(cid:564)(cid:581)(cid:570)(cid:576)(cid:575)(cid:580) (cid:562)(cid:575)(cid:565) (cid:581)(cid:569)(cid:576)(cid:582)(cid:568)(cid:569)(cid:581)(cid:580) Inability to shut out things we rather not see (e. g. exes) Anonymity: groys puts upfront the virtues of anonymity, this space of anonymity may be becoming harder and harder to find, anonymity may compensate for all the new forms of surveillance and visibility. The myth of online invisibility: (cid:555)(cid:569)(cid:566) (cid:573)(cid:576)(cid:575)(cid:568) (cid:581)(cid:562)(cid:570)(cid:573) : refers to the unequal nature of online visibility. Identity is imposed on us (given a name, history, culture, gender: network of categories we were born into we do not have any choice in it, problems with identity: It freezes us into pre-existing categorizations: static existence to our subjectivity. Idea that you can identity through significations: contemporary: encryption. Anonym(cid:570)(cid:581)(cid:586) (cid:562)(cid:575)(cid:565) a(cid:575)(cid:576)(cid:575)(cid:586)(cid:574)(cid:576)(cid:582)(cid:580) : tension in our contemporary times between feeling anonymous (feeling lost in a sea of content) and hyper publicity (over exposure of public life)