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Who Can It Be Now — Real Life
It has already built an ecosystem that runs on exploiting attention and monetizing the self. Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told” for ages—you still live in the world that this internet has created, a world in which selfhood has become capitalism’s last natural resource, a world whose term
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New technology—particularly smartphones and social media—allows us to produce our own personal narratives, to choose what to remember and what to contribute to our own mythos. Does this free us to create our own stories, or tether us to the past? At the link in our bio, see what two media theorists have to say about the impact of growing up online.
instagram.com... See moreIn her 2019 dissertation titled Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art, the scholar Patricia de Vries defined algorithmic anxiety as a condition in which "the possible self is perceived to be cir-cumscribed, bounded, and governed by algorithmic regimes." Her words feel breathtakingly accurate. The possibilities that we perceive for ourselves--our