Being and Nothingness
I’m in the latter portion of SXSWi with a feeling toward social media that I usually reserve towards chips and queso in a restaurant. I’ve had too much.
I feel this urge to dismantle the “self” that I represent through social technologies. Does anyone else ever get that feeling? What is lost by pursuing that option? What is gained?
Yesterday, Bruce Sterling talked about the “crueler connectivities” of data mining and surveillance that can walk hand in hand with the connectivities of social networking and participatory culture. I’m suspicious of approaching those phenomena with too much fear and paranoia. But, at the same time, I’m feeling more mindful of my connectivity this morning, and less indulgent of my impulse to understand online social participation as an unqualified good.
(while, of course, realizing this very blog post is a representation of self through social technologies)
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