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The Psychology of Social Media!Why are we who we are online?
Connected World London, 2014
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What’s the last book you read?
WYSIWYG?WYGINWYS!
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Today, we are extended…Technology!
enables an extension of the self into the digital world.
Psychology!is the paradigm through which we can understand these extensions.
Motivation!is derived from the unconscious, and is played out through consciousness.
Online Interaction!largely appeals to the outward, performing aspects of the ego.
Our Active Online Identities!are both intrasubjective and intersubjective.
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It’s the psychology, stupid.!
The internal world is comprised of relationships. How you see yourself. How you imagine others see you. This is called intrapsychic.
!!Freud’s tripartite psyche is still helpful:
id ego super-ego
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Online interaction is the domain of the ego… yet is dictated by unconscious relational forces
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The Relational
Psyche!
The key to ego fulfilment is the recognition of the other
Psychologically, we discover ourselves between
ourselves and others.
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–Jessica Benjamin
“To recognise is to affirm, validate, acknowledge, know, accept, understand,
empathise, take in, tolerate, appreciate, see, identify with, find familiar, love”
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Self
The Unconscious
SelfEgo
Social Media!
Ego
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The Outward Lean
SelfThe
Outward Facing
Ego
Social Media!
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#Selfie!
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Persona!
“a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression on others, and on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual”
C.G. Jung
When one identifies with their persona, “one no longer knows himself.”
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“False Self”!
“The false self is set up to protect the true self - to respond to challenges in the environment - the false self essentially takes up the role of social compliance.”
D.W. Winnicott
“there are those who can be themselves and who also can act, whereas there are others who can only act, and who are completely at a loss when in in a role, and when not being appreciated or applauded”
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There is no single self: only presentations of aspects of self.
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Egos are PerformativeIdentity!
the stories we tell ourselves & others, the links we post, our community identifications, etc.
How we show up!to others and our desired images of ourselves
We are divided!so we need to justify our conflicting urges and desires
The content of how we show up online!is based on a complex process that is synthesised and displayed by the ego
Who we are when we are online!is intrapsychic, interpersonal, and most of all, outward facing
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What’s the last book you read?
Or, more accurately: Who are you, right here, right now,
in front of all these people? How do you want to see yourself, how do you want others to see you? What part of you are you raising up and what part do you keep
hidden? Where is your private self and where is your public self?
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