IDENTITY THREE PERSPECTIVES ON "WHO ARE YOU?" Representational: psychological, individual Presentational: sociological, collectivistic Performative: cultural, relational 1-35 DEC MC Escher, "Hand With Reflecting Sphere," 1939 READINGS THREE PERSPECTIVES Wall Street Journal: the technology of Instagram (and Facebook) is a problem that causes self-esteem issues and exacerbates body dysmorphia. Jurgensen: the technology is fine; it's our social practices that need to change. Duffy and Chan: it's both technology and social practices. READINGS IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, YOU'LL SEE HOW THE LATTER TWO READINGS EACH RESPECTIVELY CORRESPOND WITH PRESENTATIONAL AND PERFORMATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON IDENTITY. DUFFY AND CHAN Users develop strategies for managing imagined surveillance. Problem 1: "Imagined surveillance is a consequence of technologies that include surveillance as an affordance and social practices like employers and authority figures seeking unreasonable oversight of other's lives. Problem 2: there's no such thing as a "context-free" self but that subjective or intersubjective reality doesn't fit into the rationalist, objective models deployed by most authority figures. READINGS DUFFY AND CHAN Imagined surveillance imagining unknown current and future audiences or viewers of online self/selves and how they will judge you. a consequence of technologies that include surveillance as an affordance and social practices like employers and authority figures seeking unreasonable oversight of Other's lives. Identity and authenticity there's no such thing as a "context free" self but most social media require us to act as if there is. Institutions that have enormous influence on our opportunities in life generally also act as if there is an objective, re-presentational you. READINGS C MANAGING IMAGINED SURVEILLANCE Managing audience: adjust privacy settings. Managing content: platform-specific self-presentation. Managing connections: pseudonyms and multiple aliases. SETTINGS FInstagram