…areness, give voice to those who don’t have one and offer social empowerment through participation. While the individual becomes atomized and location based apps track each and every movement, the self becomes endlessly performative, identity becomes a freely chosen game, something to be constructed though Facebook and Instagram — a theatrical presentation of the self, a cavalcade of being and becoming.
…ion of some common origin or shared characteristics with another person or group, or with an ideal. Dis-identification causes double displacement — decentering from their place in the social and cultural worlds and from themselves, resulting in questions like “Who are these people on the screen? Are they even the same species as m…