We’re charting our ten most-watched videos of 2014. Our ninth most watched video was with Nathan Jurgenson at this years #ireality. Snapchat researcher Nathan Jurgenson is a social theorist and a contributing editor for the New Inquiry. Nathan begins his talk with an exploration of Foucault’s theories and anxieties of the many ‘selves’ and identities we produce, in order to examine the potential ‘trappings of visibility’ we might experience through social media. He addresses ideas of social norms and technology as ‘architectures of power’ and the potential of social media to be a panoptic force. How can we better the embrace ephemerality and playfulness in the design of our social networks, and use this ephemerality to queer the binaries of privacy and visibility, the on and offline? Jurgenson’s view is that the trap isn’t visibility but what we do with that visibility that is the real trap.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:06:01 +0000
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