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Aleks Krotoski explores how Context Collapse in the social media has impacted our behaviour and well being and what it could mean if this becomes the norm in a potential metaverse.

Offline, we as individuals present different sides of ourselves in different situations. We behave very differently with friends, employers, parents, lovers and strangers. But as Social Media Giants like Facebook and Twitter became ubiquitous, suddenly all those different facets of our lives and personalities were compressed into a single space - this has become known as Context Collapse.

Aleks Krotoski explores how Context Collapse came to be, the impact it has had on our behaviour and well being, and finds out what it could mean for a potential Metaverse. When the final barrier between offline and online life could be broken down for good, how do we create spaces where we are free to express the different parts of ourselves safely?

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Mon 28 Feb 2022 16:30

Lisa Rein

Lisa Rein covers federal agencies and the management of government in the Biden administration at The Washington Post.Β  Before joining The Post in 1991 she was a reporter for the New York Daily News where she covered former mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and had started her daily newspaper career at the Patriot-Ledger in Quincy, Mass., where one of the biggest scandals of the late 1980s was the gold spray-painting by vandals of Plymouth Rock. She grew up in Boston and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.Β 

Kate Wagner

Kate Wagner is the creator of the viral blog McMansionHell, which roasts the world’s ugliest houses from top to bottom, all while teaching about architecture and design. Since its launch in July 2016, the blog has been featured in a wide range of publications, including TheΒ Huffington Post, Slate, Business InsiderΒ andΒ Paper Magazine.Β Outside of McMansion Hell, Kate has written forΒ Curbed,Μύ99 Percent Invisible,ΜύThe Atlantic,ΜύArchitectural DigestΒ and more. She recently graduated from Johns Hopkins with a Master of Arts in Audio Science, specializing in architectural acoustics. Her thesis project examined intersections of acoustics, urbanism and Late Modern architecture.Β 

Alice E. Marwick

Alice E. Marwick is an Associate Professor of Communication and Principal Researcher at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life, which she co-founded, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is also a 2020-2021 Carnegie Fellow and Faculty Advisor to the Media Manipulation Initiative at the Data & Society Research Institute. She studies the social and cultural implications of social media technologies, and is best known for her work on media manipulation and disinformation online; micro-celebrity; online privacy; and context collapse. Her first book, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media Age (Yale 2013), looked at how Silicon Valley folks used early Twitter for self-promotion in the mid-2000s. She is also the author of numerous academic papers and popular articles on social media and co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Social Media (Sage, 2017). She lives in Chapel Hill, NC and likes pop culture, feminist science fiction and high femme fashion.

Cecilia D'Anastasio

Cecilia D'Anastasio is an award winning writer covering the games industry and gaming culture for Bloomberg. She was previously staff writer at WIRED, senior reporter at Kotaku, G/O Media's video game vertical.Β 

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