Representing ourselves

1) This section  of 'who are you' states that how we as individuals construct ourselves on social media using different things like culture or appearance.

I think therefore I am:
This states that how before our images were set and socially constructed as there were more conjugal roles within households and expectations were held of certain individuals. Also the things like Pre determined roles and how our identities were defined by these factors.

From Citizen to consumer:
This mentions how our identity is constructed through creating desires and having a representation which enables the person to look desirable. This further links with feuds theory how we have a id and ego and everyone has their own set of pleasures.

Branding and Lifestyle: 
This idea is based on how we as individuals choose products that best meet our needs and represent us in a way that looks good and the use of brand helps everyone promote this.

2) I happy to be associated with Apple, Ralph Lauren, Nike, subway and Starbuck`s because these brands as they have good products.

3)I agree to a certain extent that the modern media is about style over substance as the media does favour and promote beauty fashion and what looks more desirable or what can make you look more ideal and make you a individual that you see yourself to want to be. This means that now the media reinforces more of things to do with appearance rather than intellectual ability itself.

4) Baudrillard's theory of media saturation states that there is more emphasis on style and fashion rather than internal traits like intelligence and compassion. He refers to this as hyper reality and says that when a sign looses its relation it begins to stimulate a simulation. This is when the thing being represented is replaced by the thing actually being represented. This creates a division between real world and simulation collapses and the illusion of an object is no longer possible because the real object is no longer there.

5) My presence on social media is not a complete accurate representation of me because i am different to what i am online and there are things that do truly represent me of me but i think that everyone is limited of their true representations online. For pictures on my social media i do not think that much about it i only delete if i believe that it is unsuitable.

6) I think that data mining is a good thing to some extent because this helps you as a individual get apps that are helpful to you based on what you use as it generates new information for you. However this may also be concerning as it can be seen as invasion of privacy.