{"id":538,"date":"2021-09-01T20:53:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=538"},"modified":"2021-09-01T20:54:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:54:48","slug":"keyword-2-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/01\/keyword-2-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyword #2: Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Identity is the subjective view of ourselves and the ways in which we fit into the world. This is detailed by physical, psychological, and interpersonal attributes that allow us to define a sense of community or belonging. One concept about identity that I found really interesting was the debate over structure and agency and begs the question, do we truly have control over the choices we make? It is clear that media displays cultural norms and the desired life. Many subscribe to this idea by presenting their electronic and public selves as very different from their internal identity. This performative action in following the defined structure may inherently limit our ability to make decisions that best serve ourselves, therefore, inhibiting agency.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This idea is amplified by 21st century\u2019s hyperfixation on social media, but is not new. For example, I think to federal restriction in national television in the 1950s, where characters who were openly gay were prohibited from the screen. Thus, many who were gay at the time never saw representation in media and were significantly more likely to hide their sexuality as it did not conform with the norm. Media tends to reflect the widely \u201cacceptable\u201d or desired self.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity is the subjective view of ourselves and the ways in which we fit into the world. This is detailed by physical, psychological, and interpersonal attributes that allow us to define a sense of community or belonging. One concept about identity that I found really interesting was the debate over structure and agency and begs the question, do we truly&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/01\/keyword-2-identity\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53801,87686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","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\/538","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\/5402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}