Second-modernity identity needs summoned the internet into everyday life

Evidence

Indeed, it was this new mentality and its demands that summoned the internet and the burgeoning information apparatus into our everyday lives. The burdens of life without a fixed destiny turned us toward the empowering information-rich resources of the new digital milieu as it offered new ways to amplify our voices and forge our own chosen patterns of connection. So profound is this phenomenon that one can say without exaggeration that the individual as the author of his or her own life is the protagonist of our age, whether we experience this fact as emancipation or affliction. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 114

Categorization

• XREF: This causal claim — demand for self-authorship drew in digital tools — sets up the later contrast with surveillance capitalism’s hijacking of that project. — connects to: Early online communities aimed to augment local place, not escape it — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 131; The Internet lets individuals bypass gatekeepers and create personalized symbolic environments; French poststructuralist ideas prefigured how identity works online — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2533 (+1 more)
• SEED: An essay angle: how the very technology that empowered self-authorship became the instrument of its capture — the internet as both liberator and trap.

Broader Connections

• The Internet lets individuals bypass gatekeepers and create personalized symbolic environments #expands (0.85)
• Social media does not transmit identity but requires its continuous self-production. #qualifies (0.78) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1463
• French poststructuralist ideas prefigured how identity works online #corroborates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2533