Social media makes others’ identities partly uncontrollable through third-party disclosure

Evidence

People frequently reveal information about others, deliberately or inadvertently, through the lifestream. Someone without a Twitter account can be referenced in a tweet. A person who chooses not to check in at a bar can still be photographed by another patron. Someone can be tagged in a photo on Facebook even if they do not have a Facebook account. Two users who are not directly connected through social media site may appear in each other’s streams through mutual friends. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 637

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concretely defines the mechanism by which the ‘lifestream’ escapes individual control — third-party disclosure via tags, references, and mutual networks.
• XREF: This is foundational to the ‘networked privacy’ critique later mainstreamed by danah boyd and others; connects to surveillance and reputation economies literature. — connects to: Even the most public online selves are managed through deliberate disclosure choices — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 630; Individual attempts to control online identity fail because others disclose without sharing one’s boundaries — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 636; Social media does not transmit identity but requires its continuous self-production. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1463 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Social media does not transmit identity but requires its continuous self-production. #complicates (0.80) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1463
• Social media flattening makes the self easier to confuse with someone else’s #expands (0.80) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 129
• Generation Z’s constant social media use creates an outside-looking-in dependency on others for identity #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1425