The following is my first outline for my final project video in Digital Ethnography.
- Modernity brought with it a "crisis of significance"
- anonymous social relations introduced to everyday life
- system requires these relations
- engineering of the self
- individual experiences less real selves
- individual feels homeless
- struggles to find meaning when anonymous
- this grand shift cannot/does not fully explain contemporary predicament
- Today, in the postmodern "information age", we experience "crises of significance"
- last 50 yrs we've moved from modern techno-economic society to postmodern
- movements from 60s, 70s
- manifestation in academia
- emphasis on information/connectedness
- now feel both modern and postmodern "crises of significance"
- postmodern struggles to find significance anywhere
- plagued by relativism, deconstructionism
- meaning found in surfaces/surface level evaluations
- attempt to fight off anonymity to increase surface meaning
- everything's amazing, no one's happy
- more connected than ever, yet pervasive loneliness ensues
- The future will yield a reintegration of significance
- we, the world, will only survive for so long experiencing all selves as less real
- ultra-connectedness offers opportunity to see all selves as real
