Showing posts with label change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label change. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Philosophy for change

I came across this blog, Philosphy for Change, today (thanks @myleejoseph for highlighting it). It featured an article titled "Foucault and social media: I tweet, therefore I become". It's the 2nd part of a three-part series of articles. Part one explored how the open commons ideal of social media creates a 'virtual Panopticon' effect that impacts on the psychology of users. This second article looks at Foucault's concept of subjectivation - given that social media shapes so much of ourselves, why shouldn't we engage this process in a creative way? The third instalment will explore the 'call of the crowd'...
This second article closes with the following statement... "Social media can be a positive tool for creating and affirming the self. We can and do use social media as a tool in the 'art of life', the practice of constructing the self."
Food for thought.