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props to @backus, @pwang, @nwilliams030, @danlistensto, @nosilverv, @qorprate, and @visakanv for a lot of the inspo here
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i wrote a new blog post about
- the social psych of alt twitter
- why digital masks can be therapeutic
- the feedback loop between media tech and identity, from medieval times til today
- how the internet is challenging basic assumptions about the self
ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/23/bei…
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this post pairs well with MIT Tech Review’s new cover. from alt twitter to finstas to private snap stories, new media is allowing ppl to incubate new models of identity. these experiments can seem trivial but they’re an important psychological survival strategy for the info age pic.twitter.com/GpdeFeyr5f
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there’s a lot of precedent for the kind of experimentation that’s happening in digital spaces—cosplay, LARP, improv, drag, to name a few. i’m curious to see how ideas about identity evolve as online/offline blend together and kids start challenging the norms of 2010s social media
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Peter Wang
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This is great, very nicely written.
I hadn’t before thought about the pseudonymous movement as a counterculture. It uses the ability to create more accounts as a loophole to escape the scarce-by-design fame culture (required by the economics of for-profit attention markets).
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Peter Wang
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To give metaphysical/memetic weight to this counterculture, we should adopt a convention for pseudonymous profiles, e.g. a set of emoji or something like an identity tagline.
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