Tag Archives: confessional
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
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
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
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
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
Digital A-Rae 