{"content":[{"text":"The Virtual, Networked Self","bbox":{"left":0.387876,"top":0.089121,"width":0.224333,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"1.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.12397,"width":0.014705999999999997,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"As different communication technologies enable different modes of relating, it should be \n no surprise that they also shape different forms of identity. In an earlier series of videos \n on the co-evolution of religion and communication technologies I contrasted the \n communal self, emergent from oral culture with the more autonomous, individual self \n that arises from literacy. Its not a matter of one replacing the other, after all literate \n people still talk, and indeed only learn to write after having learned to talk. Rather literate \n individuality enhances and overlays a more primal and pervasive communal identity. \n How we are raised and the friends we associate with continue to shape our identities no \n matter how idiosyncratic our more deliberative thought may become. \n The internet, with its hypertexts, social media, tracking programs, and big data science is \n creating yet another level of the self to supplement earlier oral and literate identities. And \n just as Socrates had argued that literate reason ought to govern earlier oral thought and \n values, so emergent virtual technologies, for good or ill, are increasing in the driver’s \n seat. In this video we will explore how social media embeds individual identity within \n wider networks, giving rise to new psychological vulnerabilities. \n Let’s begin with Facebook. (1) As of October 2018 there were 2.3 billion active \n Facebook users-- fully one third of the planet. And two thirds of these use it daily. (3) In \n the United States, two thirds have active accounts, (4) 75% of whom check it every day. \n Among the 18-19 demographic the percentage of Americans using Facebook rises to \n 80%, even half of those 65 and over have accounts. \n a. Now what is the relationship between how someone presents themselves in \n person, face to face, versus over Facebook? Since many of my friends on \n Facebook do also know me in person or on other sites, there cannot be too wide a \n discrepancy. On the other hand recognition over Facebook is skewed. I only posts \n what’s worth posting, typically fun and interesting experiences that present me in \n a positive light and/or items that will score more likes from other users in my \n network. In that sense recognition is more positive than in the messier world of \n face to face interaction. On the other hand the same holds true for all my \n Facebook friends leading to the common paradox that all my Facebook friends \n seem to have more fun, lead more interesting lives than I do. Thus the overall","bbox":{"left":0.176503,"top":0.12397,"width":0.702974,"height":0.778166}},{"text":"2.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.359222,"width":0.014705999999999997,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"3.","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.516066,"width":0.014705999999999997,"height":0.020212000000000008}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}