You make some good points, particularly about the ridiculous idea that people only cared because of her age and race (everything is about race, nowadays sadly).
I don't see, however, how and why is creating a narrative on social media is appreciably different from what we do in our real-life social interactions. Don't we all try to pres…
You make some good points, particularly about the ridiculous idea that people only cared because of her age and race (everything is about race, nowadays sadly).
I don't see, however, how and why is creating a narrative on social media is appreciably different from what we do in our real-life social interactions. Don't we all try to present ourselves in accordance with how we want others to perceive us? The way we dress, groom ourselves, speak, move, smell, style our hair etc., in preparation for say, a formal dinner (or whatever), is informed (explicitly or not) by how we want others to perceive us and our understanding of what is appropriate for a given situation. The same is true online when social media influencers (or anyone) posts content.
Sure, social media and digital interactions make it easier for us to more carefully control what we present to others, so it is certainly easier to misrepresent things. I don't think this outweighs all of the benefits we individually and as a society have gained through the spread of digital / social media however.
You make some good points, particularly about the ridiculous idea that people only cared because of her age and race (everything is about race, nowadays sadly).
I don't see, however, how and why is creating a narrative on social media is appreciably different from what we do in our real-life social interactions. Don't we all try to present ourselves in accordance with how we want others to perceive us? The way we dress, groom ourselves, speak, move, smell, style our hair etc., in preparation for say, a formal dinner (or whatever), is informed (explicitly or not) by how we want others to perceive us and our understanding of what is appropriate for a given situation. The same is true online when social media influencers (or anyone) posts content.
Sure, social media and digital interactions make it easier for us to more carefully control what we present to others, so it is certainly easier to misrepresent things. I don't think this outweighs all of the benefits we individually and as a society have gained through the spread of digital / social media however.