You and Your ProfileHans-Georg Moeller, Paul J. D'Ambrosio
You and Your Profile
by Hans-Georg Moeller, Paul J. D'Ambrosio · first published 2021
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This post aligns well with what Hans-Georg Moeller talks about in You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity. Particularly, what he calls "second-order observation", we see ourselves how others see us (online). > Tech CEOs talk about disrupting markets, but the concept of disruption…
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on “Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious” ↗MOELLER, Hans-Georg and D’AMBROSIO, Paul J., 2021. You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-19600-0: > At the heart of all these issues, from suicides and duels to obsession with family life or professional achievement,…
on “Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls” ↗…the rise of social media: many people are reverting back to a mechanism of identity formation that resembles sincerity, a mechanism of identity formation which Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul D’Ambrosio in You and Your Profile, have termed profilicity. Like sincerity, profilicity is other-directed and reliant on the reactions of an audience. With sincerity one’s family and community are the audience that casts judgement on…
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