{"id":1063,"date":"2021-10-25T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2021-10-25T21:55:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T01:55:54","slug":"network-mary-margaret-clouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/25\/network-mary-margaret-clouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Network: Mary Margaret Clouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What I found interesting about the keyword \u201cnetwork\u201d is how it seems to define members of a given network only by their output. For example, on social media, the only perceivable aspects of someone\u2019s personality, ideology, experiences, or interests are what is shared in this specific network. The keyword explains that \u201cin the network, we can understand ourselves only in terms of relationships to others.\u201d This perspective is inherently reductive because it is impossible to include every piece of one\u2019s identity on social media. The keyword author agrees with me here, that this way of interacting within said network is limiting. It can become hard to see one\u2019s self, and especially other individuals, outside of the version presented on this network, which is why I think social media is so harmful to mental health. Not only does it force us to reduce ourselves, but we also only see perfected versions of other people, which creates an entire culture of falsehood and incompleteness. The article below is about the negative mental health impact Instagram has on users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/15\/tech\/instagram-teen-girls\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/15\/tech\/instagram-teen-girls\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I found interesting about the keyword \u201cnetwork\u201d is how it seems to define members of a given network only by their output. For example, on social media, the only perceivable aspects of someone\u2019s personality, ideology, experiences, or interests are what is shared in this specific network. The keyword explains that \u201cin the network, we can understand ourselves only in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/25\/network-mary-margaret-clouse\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87686,14601],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keywords","category-network"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}