On Digital Dualism: An Exploration of Internet Privacy, Media Representation, and Online Identity

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Bass, Shelby
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Art and Art History, Studio Art

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Motivating Ideas: The primary goal of the work I have created over the course of my honors thesis is to explore the fallacy of “digital dualism.” Digital dualism, a phrase coined by researcher and social media theorist Nathan Jurgenson, is the idea that the “digital world is ‘virtual’ while the physical world is ‘real’ (“Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality” 1). I would argue instead that “digital and material realities…coconstruct each other” (“Towards Theorizing an Augmented Reality” 2). The digital and physical worlds in the 21st century are inextricably linked – what goes on online can have profound “real-world” implications, and vice-versa. The two implications that I have focused on in my work this semester are digital privacy and the portrayal of underrepresented groups in media. My work #3B5998 seeks to visually represent the real world, human impact of online privacy violation and explores issues of manipulation and color psychology as it relates to the social network site Facebook. Selfierepresentation explores identity in the digital age and challenges how underrepresented groups are often portrayed in mass media; this piece also explores the political possibilities of online self-representation and deals with politics, agency, and the evolving language of the internet.

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