ain’t really your life,
ain’t really ain’t nothing but a movie.
Repeat.
Ad infinitum.
Was reminded today, after reading a superb review of Thomas de Zengotita’s book Mediated, of how much my life resembles a B movie. A really, really unoriginal B movie. Thoroughly mediated. Thoroughly cliche.
Can you think of any moment in your life where you didn’t [...]
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I came across a haunting trailer today for a documentary by (of?) Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner called We Live in Public. According to Jason Calacanis, who wrote an excellent email-turned-blog-post about the documentary’s subject matter, “It’s a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of technology, a somber topic that we all need to consider [...]
Categories: anthropology, psychology, technology
Tagged: anthropology, context collapse, culture, empathy, identity, media, privacy, public, self, sociology, technology
An interesting article was brought to my attention via Twitter this afternoon. Melanie McBride tweeted an article written last December that presents the complex issue of self celebration on the web through a particularly unsettling case of a Facebook group named 30 Reasons Girls Should Call It A Night where thousands of posted pictures depict [...]
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Tagged: anthropology, facebook, identity, privacy, self, web