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Social Media & The Digital Confessional: Full Outline
Watching Each Other: Foucault’s Panopticon and Confessional in Online Sharing I. Intro a. Thesis: The internet, especially social media, can be read as Foucault’s confessional-turned-panopticon, in which people expose and put into language (text, pictures, videos, music) their experiences and … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, boyle, brignall, copland, dave eggers, digital confessional, digital english studies, digital humanities, facebook, foucault, heussner, hollander, hope, instagram, joyce, jukuri, mcinnis, outline, pantopicon, paper, privacy, project, rajagopal, social media, story, story telling, surveillance, the circle, transparency, transparent, twitter, writing
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Social Media & The Digital Confessional: Outlining a long post
Tentative Thesis: The internet, especially social media, can be read as Foucault’s confessional-turned-panopticon, in which people expose and put into language (text, pictures, videos, music) their experiences and stories, the process of which makes them subject those experiences to social discourse, … Continue reading
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Tagged #tbh, brainstorming, collaborate, confession, confession blogs, confession sites, confessional, digital confessional, digital English, digital humanities, facebook, foucault, help, literature, outline, panopticon, planning, social media, twitter, workshop, writing, writing process
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Ki Mae Heussner, “Digital Confessionals: Tweeting Away Your Vices”
This article explores the use of social media as a way to motivate/shame yourself into meeting a goal, like losing weight, monitoring your spending, or quitting smoking. The author looks at one man who lost weight by tweeting his caloric intake, … Continue reading
Posted in Annotations, Watching Each Other
Tagged abc news, annotation, behavior, budget, confessional, digital confessional, digital English, digital humanities, digital story, english, facebook, foucault, health, hegemony, ki mae heussner, lose weight, myspace, narrative, panopticon, self-policing, smoking, social norms, tweetwhatyoueat, tweetwhatyouspend, twitter
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Richard Joyce, “Internet Surveillance: A Virtual Panopticon?”
This short blog post appears to be part of Richard Joyce’s blog for a course at Bowdoin, and, similar to this blog, he’s thinking through some of his own thoughts in relation to what he’s read. The thrust of his thinking … Continue reading
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Tagged annotation, bentham, bowdoin, confessional, dave eggers, digital confessional, digital humanities, digital story, exhibition, facebook, foucault, internet, panopticon, richard joyce, social media, sociology, story, surveillance, the circle
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Jenny Hollander, “YouTube Video of Matthew Cordle Latest to Post Murder ‘Confession’ on Internet”
Last year, Because I said I would, a website that helps people post a commitment they are making, posted the above video on YouTube, featuring Matthew Cordle confessing to drunk driving the wrong way on a highway and killing a … Continue reading
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Tagged annotation, because i said i would, behavior, bustle, confession, crime, criminal, criminal justice, digital confessional, digital humanities, digital media, facebook, foucault, hegemony, internet confession, jail, jenny hollander, justice, matthew cordle, panopticon, police, postsecret, reddit, self-policing, social media, social norms, society, tumblr, twitter, victim, youtube
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Indhu Rajagopal, “Does the Internet shape a disciplinary society? The information-knowledge paradox”
Rajagopal’s essay considers the relationship between information and knowledge through a Foucauldian framework. This was a complex, dry argument, so I’m going to try to communicate what I understood, and what I might continue to think about. In the knowledge/power … Continue reading
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Tagged althusser, archaeology, confessional, digital, digital confessional, digital humanities, digital media, discipline, foucault, genealogy, hegemony, indhu rajagopal, information, institution, internet, ISA, knowledge, knowledge-information paradox, knowledge/power, panopticon, prison, social media
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Mitchell McInnis, “Conversation with a Dead Man: Foucault on Facebook and Confession”
Turning from panopticism (which I’m still unsure is a word) toward Foucault’s confessional, I look at Mitchell McInnis’ blog post from Hoboeye.com, which seems to be a possibly-temporarily-defunct online publication about wandering. I annotate this because the beginning raises an interesting … Continue reading
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Tagged christianity, confession, confessional, conversation, digital confessional, digital humanities, digital media, facebook, foucault, hobo eye, hoboeye.com, internet confessional, michel foucault, mitchell mcinnis, panopticon, sharing, social media, story telling, talk shows, twitter
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