Self-identity in New Media- The Internet
Thursday, September 24, 2009 by Jay
Out of several other new media forms, the one I believe as the most influential in terms of portraying self-identity is the Internet. This is particularly so because young people today are identifying themselves in SNS's. Internet can therefore act as the platform for ordinary people to become influential.
I would like to briefly talk about the recently issue that arise from the comment posted on MySpace by a famous Korean singer that became a problem. The comments were discrimination of Korean society that made the citizens and even fans very upsetting. Of course this comment was discovered by some anonymous blogger who found something that was written four years ago. Even though Jay (the singer) was Korean who lived in America for a long time his identity performed on MySpace as American who has discriminated Korea caused him to withdraw himself out of the group and bringing himself back to America. Even though people were behaving rather irrational the image of one individual portrayed in this SNS created a case that could not be altered. It allows the Internet and particularly the SNS’s to articulate or play some kind of authenticity which in this case involved bloggers whom rather acted as proxy for other bloggers that ultimately ended up destroying ones’ career.
What I thought interesting about this incident is my understanding of self-identity is something that shouldn’t be ignored in any media forms particularly in the Internet but one that should be clearly performed by individuals. It is necessary to be aware of the consequences that might lead to such miscellaneous by choosing to be someone that suits best at one time.
I would like to briefly talk about the recently issue that arise from the comment posted on MySpace by a famous Korean singer that became a problem. The comments were discrimination of Korean society that made the citizens and even fans very upsetting. Of course this comment was discovered by some anonymous blogger who found something that was written four years ago. Even though Jay (the singer) was Korean who lived in America for a long time his identity performed on MySpace as American who has discriminated Korea caused him to withdraw himself out of the group and bringing himself back to America. Even though people were behaving rather irrational the image of one individual portrayed in this SNS created a case that could not be altered. It allows the Internet and particularly the SNS’s to articulate or play some kind of authenticity which in this case involved bloggers whom rather acted as proxy for other bloggers that ultimately ended up destroying ones’ career.
What I thought interesting about this incident is my understanding of self-identity is something that shouldn’t be ignored in any media forms particularly in the Internet but one that should be clearly performed by individuals. It is necessary to be aware of the consequences that might lead to such miscellaneous by choosing to be someone that suits best at one time.