A Day in the Life of Super-Participation
Members: Hazel, Joey, JJ, Qistina
Personally, in my opinion, I feel that when I’m doing this microproject, I was very reluctant to disclose too much as I felt this project is a little to privacy invading. So most of the things that I post I tend to filter it, in terms of choosing what to post and what not to. So most of my post doesn’t show my face at all, but rather I show the things that I do or picture taken of others. I felt that the only personal things that I shared were my thoughts and how felt that day.
For my team, the things that we share are mainly how we go on about our daily life. Such as the food we eat, traveling or doing certain activities at certain places.
I believe that this project is not just about expressing our digital identity but at the same time a source of companionship. For my team’s post, some of the posts are a little emotional. For example, when I posted a photo of my grandma, it reminded JJ about his late grandma too, and this evokes a certain connection between people through the digital platform. Likewise, that day at night I posted my thoughts/feelings and Qistina comforted me, and this sort of allows people to feel that you are not alone through such a medium.
Digital media has become an extension of our digital image because what we post without much consideration actually reveal a lot about us even though we might think that they may be something trivial and not as revealing. However, human nature just functions in a manner that we process even the smallest information about you and form really quick judgment.
I felt that some people try to create persona/image of ourselves. However, I felt that at the same time, people tend to form an image of us as well via social media.
I felt that to a certain extent there are similarities between forming our self-image in social media and in reality because at both states we are able to be in control of what we want to show and what we choose not to, its just that social media has a wider freedom in terms of filtering.