TALK WITH PEGGY
Spoke through my previous research and the themes that has emerged within that (control and intention).
Peg mentioned the differences in intention being interesting as one person may have different intentions for the use of the same platform.
- Interesting observation, left wondering why this is the case.
Spoke about audience and how it's most appropriate to have the audience be our age (18-25) so we're not commenting on experiences we don't know about.
- People older than this have a different relationship to social media as do those younger.
Peggy commented on this duality of social media, how one person can use it in different ways.
When talking we noticed that we have different relationships to social media than each other, I'm much more wary of posting personal information, and avoid geotagging, Peg not as much.
Thinking about the why. Why do we post what we do?
Going back to quote "What we measure affects what we do." if we didn't see the numbers would what we post change?
Taking digital content out into physical, what effect does that have on how we view the content? Twitter, Facebook, fake news, tabloids.
- Thinking that people reading gossip magazines have different relationship to reading article online and vice versa.
- What effect does the physicality of something have on how we interpret it?
Checked in with peg about this idea and we both think it's interesting as a topic. Spoke about digital photos printed out compared to ones we've taken on film cameras. All very interesting.
Spoke about setting ourselves challenges to see where our boundaries lie with social media and our relationships to it.
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Notes from Talk:
Shared usernames and passwords as a way of deleting the accounts, like writing over a note a few times therefore making it harder to read.
So those using his accounts are adding data to his profile but adding incorrect data.
Marked the start of 6 months without digital footprint.
3 weeks with nothing. Found that it's hard to opt out of using online platforms let alone using a phone or computer.
Next 5.5 months using pay as you go phones and 3 different laptops for specific purpose at specific times and places, using VPNs to change locations.
Every month would replace phone and sim card.
Accounts were made to different individual sim cards. paid only with cash, daily travel cards.
When trying to erase digital footprint, there were negative cultural, social and financial impacts as well as issues with mental health.
Felt personally very isolated as a result, but cultural isolation was worse.
Media helps us interact socially, develop opinions, seduce and humour.
But we are given this media through social platforms with algorithms that tailor content to us, politics, entertainment, and culture.
Experience of events changed. Paris attacks happened and he didn't know about them until 24 hours later. Things were mentioned little in the physical world.
There was coverage in newspapers but culturally it existed only online. Solidarity being shown on social media but if you didn't have social media you wouldn't know it existed.
Found cultural isolation to be too much, finding it difficult to be with other people.
Finished the experiment and felt relief.
Is it worse to resist the change (of social media taking over) or engage with it?
Social media accounts act as social passports to the real world, allow for commonality.
78% of 10-12 years old have facebook accounts (have to be 13 in the T&Cs) this is so they can fit in and no be different.
Social media gives us a space to put our ideal version of ourselves, it get projected to where we want it to. We can play up, censor and reform image. Social conduct (online and in person) becomes driven by the needs of the virtual image we've made.
6 months after trying to remove digital footprint started new project where all digital contact was published online, texts, emails, phone calls, web browsing, skype and social media accounts online in real time.
Wrote a program to 3D print each days data, making 31 joining parts showing a day in the digital life, which formed landscape that was exhibited.
For the 1st half of the month, used phone and laptop as normal, if anything grew in confidence. People he was contacting he personally knew, so if they went on the website they'd be able to contextualise what was being published.
On 15th September hit by realisation that everyone could see everything as facebook was added to the mix so distant acquaintances had the capacity to judge his actions without any real context. So noticed a change in behaviour, so wouldn't look at phone when woke up because didn't want people to know what time that was, would use internet in different ways, tried to tailor the "ideal" picture, not digitally procrastinating, on the internet less. Able to embrace social media, felt validated.
No digital privacy at all was the happiest period, not when he had pure privacy.
After the broadcasting experiment would leave events early as actions weren't being broadcast, needed validation for fulfillment, placed virtual self at the centre of real world experiences which allowed him to justify actions and opinion by how people would receive his news feed. That's the problem.
Perception of self require validation gives a sense of empowerment.
Self publishing personal details to social media owners and government.
- This was really interesting to hear about the extremes in terms of digital privacy and digital broadcasting.
- Observations about how the digital and impact the physical world and that they aren't two separate entities but rather intertwined and weave into one another is really intriguing, presents a different way of thinking about the digital landscape, looking at how the digital affects the physical.
Website: http://poisonous-antidote.com/?fbclid=IwAR01xhZk1Gzjh62vQa4N-kOSw2byg1LfKuuEKUd0EYoi0dO_3Bfoj2ee7TE
Such an interesting website, visually simple but intriguing and engaging. I initially felt bad for engaging with the website but then came round to the fact that this was his choice and was an experiment.
- It's interesting to think about how I would feel if all of my digital interactions were published online, I think I'd feel more concerned about having that happen now as a lot of my social contact is happening digitally so the content would be more personal that normal.
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- Partly for aesthetics also is why I archived many images, not wanting to delete them as instagram is a holding place that I want to keep these things (like a scrapbook that I mentioned previously).
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