{"id":533,"date":"2021-09-01T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=533"},"modified":"2021-09-01T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:38:00","slug":"identity-mary-margaret-clouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/01\/identity-mary-margaret-clouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity: Mary Margaret Clouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something unique about identity is how it can be shaped by both culture and media. People identify themselves by the music they listen to, movies they enjoy, favorite TV shows, etc. Essentially, the media we consume becomes part of our collective, generational \u201cidentity\u201d. While different cultural groups can be united around aspects of their culture, like food and shared experiences, people are more generally united by generational groups. Being the same age makes it more likely that individuals consumed similar media, uniting them more closely with each other than members of other generations. More recently, identity is being shaped through social media. Constantly seeing what members of one\u2019s peer group are doing, watching, or listening to can pique interest in these varying types of media, which may in turn become part of one\u2019s identity. As Judith Butler states, \u201cIdentity is more about what you <\/span>do <\/span><\/i>rather than about what you <\/span>are.<\/span><\/i>\u201d This has been greatly emphasized by social media, where what you post dictates the exterior perception of your identity. This keyword seems to argue that identity is solely a projection of an image, because the reality is less concrete. Since social media gives us the opportunity to curate our identities and how we\u2019re perceived, I wonder if this falsification will have negative consequences in the long term.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something unique about identity is how it can be shaped by both culture and media. People identify themselves by the music they listen to, movies they enjoy, favorite TV shows, etc. Essentially, the media we consume becomes part of our collective, generational \u201cidentity\u201d. While different cultural groups can be united around aspects of their culture, like food and shared experiences,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53801,87686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity","category-keywords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}