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Technology Review: Blogs: Jason Pontin's blog: Authenticity in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility October 9, 2008

Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , trackback

The Editor-in-Chief of Technology Review ponders his professional persona as presented through his use of social media (introducing two contributions on this theme):

"Social-media Jason Pontin, in short, is a function of my business life. I know that this identity is inauthentic, because there is so much about which I do not post or blog. Do other habitual users of social media, whose social identities are as carefully constructed to attract attention, but who blog and post about everything (and thus feel no alienation), not know that those identities are inauthentic?"

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