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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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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
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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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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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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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Foucault, Surveillance, etc: Planning
I need to go out into the world and do some reading, but for now, for the Daily Create assignment, I’ll lay out a plan for attacking this thing. 1. Gonna do some reading–I have my crazy to-do list calendar. … Continue reading
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