Jeff Shires
I currently teach courses in media and research the influence of media on individuals. During the last three years, I have worked, in various leadership positions, to facilitate and to solve issues arising from the unification/merger of Purdue University North Central and Purdue University Calumet. I led the PNC Faculty Senate and then the Concurrent Enrollment office in developing solutions to expected and unexpected problems surrounding unification. Overall, I have spent twenty-plus years in higher education as instructor and professor of Communication. I have I have expertise in curriculum development and assessment, teaching, and faculty governance.
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This paper will be presented at the Society for Values in Higher Education annual meeting July 18-22, 2018.
This article considers how the technological changes have facilitated the establishment of a sense of ‘ressentiment’ in modern political cultures. This is the unease created when someone believes they have been injured by another but feel impotent to act. While technologies have developed at a startling rate, society’s ability to deal with them has not kept up. Consequently, neo-liberal economic principles and political narratives have distorted the culture practices as a range of agencies (political, economic, technology) have become elitist and self-serving. Individual forms of identity are undermined by a surfeit of information in which online gatekeepers (Google, Facebook, Twitter) use algorithms that synthesize real with virtual emotional values. These distortions are now being made tangible with the election of right-wing populists such as Donald Trump and the genuine sense of popular dislocation that contributed to the UK Brexit vote.
l mediated communication, places a
barrier between the message’s sender and
receiver. However, where traditional
mediated communication (television, magazines) is unidirectional, internet
technologies provide for one-on-one communication albeit with a high degree of
mediation. The basic ontology of this interaction has yet to be fully explicated.
Traditional communication theory focuses on interactions that are face-to-face
while mass communication theory looks at communication situations where
feedback is delayed or completely absent. Internet interactions are both
interpersonal and mediated and, at the same
time, are neither of these. The paper
will use the framework of self- and othe
r-informed theories of Edmund Husserl
and Mikhail Bakhtin to understand how users construct “faces” for all parties
involved in the internet communication inte
raction. In addition, the paper will
use the theories of Nicolai Hartmann to discuss how this ontology is, on the one
hand, stratified and, on the other hand, unified. The paper will discuss how the
user actively constructs a self-identity which is then portrayed to other people
involved in the interaction and how the
individual deconstructs the identities of
other users.
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This paper will be presented at the Society for Values in Higher Education annual meeting July 18-22, 2018.
This article considers how the technological changes have facilitated the establishment of a sense of ‘ressentiment’ in modern political cultures. This is the unease created when someone believes they have been injured by another but feel impotent to act. While technologies have developed at a startling rate, society’s ability to deal with them has not kept up. Consequently, neo-liberal economic principles and political narratives have distorted the culture practices as a range of agencies (political, economic, technology) have become elitist and self-serving. Individual forms of identity are undermined by a surfeit of information in which online gatekeepers (Google, Facebook, Twitter) use algorithms that synthesize real with virtual emotional values. These distortions are now being made tangible with the election of right-wing populists such as Donald Trump and the genuine sense of popular dislocation that contributed to the UK Brexit vote.
l mediated communication, places a
barrier between the message’s sender and
receiver. However, where traditional
mediated communication (television, magazines) is unidirectional, internet
technologies provide for one-on-one communication albeit with a high degree of
mediation. The basic ontology of this interaction has yet to be fully explicated.
Traditional communication theory focuses on interactions that are face-to-face
while mass communication theory looks at communication situations where
feedback is delayed or completely absent. Internet interactions are both
interpersonal and mediated and, at the same
time, are neither of these. The paper
will use the framework of self- and othe
r-informed theories of Edmund Husserl
and Mikhail Bakhtin to understand how users construct “faces” for all parties
involved in the internet communication inte
raction. In addition, the paper will
use the theories of Nicolai Hartmann to discuss how this ontology is, on the one
hand, stratified and, on the other hand, unified. The paper will discuss how the
user actively constructs a self-identity which is then portrayed to other people
involved in the interaction and how the
individual deconstructs the identities of
other users.