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Identity is not fixed, it can change constantly (it 'shifts')

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Identity is fluid

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Our identities are influenced by our experiences in life (life events, people around us etc)

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Our identity can be influenced by our aspirations on what we want to be

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1) self identity: how we perceive ourselves

2) social identity: other people's expectations and opinions

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our language and upbringing also influences our identities

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-How much of our identity is made up of what we experience?
-Dose who we want to be and our ambition affect the way we act and aim/want to be perceived?
-How much of our personality is made up of the people around us?

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An objective representation of who we are.
Made up of fact and stats about our selves as humans.
Examples: Student ID, Passport, Driving Licence, Signature, images.

Other ways if identification are also Tattoos and peircings this can make u easily identifiable/unique. This also branches into aspects of your identity and personality as there both forms of self expression. Just two of the ways we are able to bridge the gap between Identification and identity.

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The rise and development of portrait photography and commodification of images allowing the first steps in people connecting celebrities with the things they enjoy such as theatre. I identified this as being the early stages of people idolising success and its association with fame.

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The idea of it hasn't happened or you don't exist unless its photographed.
Eg. Holidays, events, experiences.

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What happens when we are striped of our self expression? Dose our Identification become who we are?
What happens when photographs and videos become unreliable? Deepfakes, photoshop...
What happens if aspects of our identity and who we are is stripped away? Gay rights, Art, freedom of speech.

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How to write and develop a good essay question?

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How to write and develop a good essay question?

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At this time topics that interest me so round the following...
-Creation of identity.
-Formative aspects of individuality, Idolising and reflection.
-Impacts off technology on personality.
-How has the internet affected the formation of character, individuality and overall identity?
-Social medias effects on expectation and its affects on the way people act, goal set and idolise those such as sportsmen/women, actors, businessmen/women and influencers.
-What are tools of self expression? Art, Fashion, music, Tattoos+piercings, Social media.
-What are the impacts of modern technology and media on the formation of identity.

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-Has the development of the internet and growth of social media presents affected the development of identity and character among digital natives?
-How has social media and the internet as a whole benefitted the development of identity and self expression?

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Was a relaxed convocation on our topics and direction at the time.
I spoke on the topics I was narrowing my focus to and it was received well.
It was suggested I looked into intellectual studies and the phycology behind identity and its relationship self expression and modern technology (internet, Social media).

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To represent something, depict something/image.
The way in which things are given meaning by the way they are depicted.

-Plato's Cave (Above): Representation vs reality.

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Plato's Cave: A Christmas Story
Brian Zahnd

Four hundred years before the birth of Jesus, history's greatest philosopher gave the world an enduring allegory. I'm talking about Plato and his famous allegory of the cave. Plato said we are like prisoners chained in a deep cave lit only by dim torches, so that we exist in darkness watching shadows on the wall. We are imprisoned in deep untruth. What we need is someone to free us from our chains, to lead us out of the dark and into the day. In simplified form that's the allegory Plato gave to explain the human predicament four hundred years before Caesar Augustus decided to take a census and thereby set in motion events that we remember every December.

You know the story. Joseph and Mary are compelled by imperial degree to travel from Nazareth to their ancestral home in Bethlehem - a little hilltop village five miles south of Jerusalem. A town that would have been utterly inconsequential if it had not been for a bit of historical trivia: a thousand years earlier Bethlehem was the birthplace of David, Israel's greatest king. To further endow tiny Bethlehem with significance, the prophet Micah in his poems of hope dreamed of the day when an even greater king would be born in Bethlehem - a king whose reign of peace would cover the earth and lead to the abolishment of war. (See Micah 4:1-5; 5:2-5)

A thousand years after David. Seven centuries after Micah.

Mary and Joseph. Bethlehem. No room in the inn. Ever resourceful Joseph finds shelter among the livestock. It's far from ideal. Mary goes into labor. (It must have seemed like the worst timing. But it wasn't.) Jesus is born. Wrapped in swaddling clothes. Laid in a manger. A feeding trough. Which is how we know Jesus was born among the livestock.

But here is where our traditional nativity scenes may mislead us. Livestock weren't sheltered in barns, but in caves. Caves! That's right, Jesus was born in a... cave!

Hold on to that thought.

Meanwhile, east of town among the rugged hills are those now famous shepherds. An angel from heaven appears. The shepherds are, understandably, frightened. The angel says what angels always say - "Fear not." This is what heaven has to say to earth...to humanity...to you: Don't be afraid.

The angel announces good news of great joy. The Savior-King has been born in Bethlehem. Then more angels!
Glory to God in the highest!
And on earth peace, goodwill among men!
Before departing the angel gives the shepherds a sign to help them find the newborn king: A baby wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger. The manger bit, that's the real clue. The shepherds won't be looking for this baby in houses or inns, but in caves!

The good news of great joy is that the world's true king has been born in Plato's cave - in our cave! The dark place where we have been imprisoned since the dawn of human consciousness and civilization. The prison where we watch shadows on the wall - shadows that animate our fears. We need to get out of the cave. But to be saved from the cave it wasn't enough for God to call to us from above - someone had to join us in the darkness. Someone who knew the way out. Immanuel. God with us. In the cave.
The prison where Satan casts shadows on the wall. Lies. Lies about God. False innuendos that God is angry, hard to please, malevolently disposed toward us. The fear generated by these shadows led to the birth of wrong religion.

Nurtured in fear, we become afraid of one another, leading to the dog-eat-dog world of wrong politics - the politics of fear where the mantra is, "Get them before they get us." The cave of fear is the matrix of war.

Afraid of God and afraid of one another we live our lives as prisoners haunted by shadows in the dreadful cave - the cave we have mistaken for reality. Then the Christmas angel comes to us...
Fear not! Good news! Great joy! A Savior is born! In a cave! Repeat the sounding joy!
The Savior-King Immanuel comes to the cave, but he will not reign in the cave. Jesus has no intention of reigning over the old politics of fear. Pharaoh, Alexander, Caesar and all the "great" rulers reigned in the cave cooperating with the accuser who casts the shadows of fear upon the wall. Jesus will not do this. Jesus is born in the cave to lead us out of the cave - out of our chains, away from the shadows and into the light of God's love.

Now we have a choice. Jesus will not force us to leave the cave. The kingdom of Christ is without coercion. Either we believe Jesus and follow him out of the shadows of fear into the light of love - or we sit in chains and watch satanic shadows on the wall. (Quite likely in the form of 24-7 cable-news shadows shown on an HD flat screen TV.)
Glory to God in the highest!
And on earth peace, goodwill among men!
Peace. There is no way to peace, peace is the way. Jesus is peace, Jesus is the way.

Goodwill. Instead of being predatory, we can choose to be benevolent. The time has come for the lion to dwell peaceably with the lamb.

We can stop viewing God's other children through the lens of fear and competition.
We can now view one another through the lens of love and goodwill. God wills it.

The world is under a new administration. No longer run by lions and bears and leopards and monsters, the world is now led by a Lamb.

Of course you can choose to stay down in the cave with your fear and illusions (and your favorite pundits to confirm it all). Forever if you want. But you don't have to. The King born in Bethlehem's cave will lead you out of the shadowlands into the warm sunshine of God's eternal love.

Fear not. Fret not. Fight not.
We can enter the sunshine of God's love.
This is the Christmas message.

So you can let go of all that culture war business. (The culture wars are mostly a debate about the nature of American civil religion, which has nothing to do with authentic Christianity.) Christmas is not about something new to fight over - Christmas is about peace on earth, goodwill among men. We can follow the Savior-King out of the cave of fear. Let's do so.

Merry Christmas!

BZ

(Click HERE for the sermon version of this.)

The grotto in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Built over a cave, it is believed to be the birthplace of Jesus. The fourteen pointed silver star represents the star that guided the magi and the fourteen generations from Abraham to David, from David to the Exile, from the Exile to Christ. (Matthew 1:17)

The warm spot where I wrote this post on a cold Christmas Eve's Eve.

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Plato's Cave: A Christmas Story - Brian Zahnd

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Plato's Cave: A Christmas Story Brian Zahnd Four hundred years before the birth of Jesus, history's greatest philosopher gave the world an enduring allegory. I'm talking about Plato and his famous allegory of the cave. Plato said we are like prisoners chained in a deep cave lit only by dim torches, so that we exist in darkness watching shadows on the wall.

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The way in which you are represented in the media can affect the outlook and meaning of a subject or yourself.

-Can result in the creation of stereotypes, Beauty standards.
-Highlights the importance of representation.
-Who can we identify with idolise.
-How are you able to build an impressionable version of your self based off of the idolisation and impressions taken from representation of people you identify with in the media.
-How can we own and really belong to our own identity and feel connected to individuality. Are we able to as time goes on and exposure to these elements of your individuality are shared.
-Theres a link between representation and reality.
Example: Female representation in advertising in the 60's

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"Mad Men" is famous for illuminating a bygone era, replete with three-martini lunches, glamorous clothing, and, of course, casual sexism.

The rampant sexism in "Mad Men" was typical of the 1960s, when the outlook for women in America was just beginning to change. While the " second wave" of feminism began in the '60s, mainstream America was still very much a "man's world."

That attitude carried over into advertising, which did little to advance gender roles and ran ads that implied women were idiots who cared mostly about pleasing their men.

Here are some of advertising's most egregious sexist ads from that era.

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26 Sexist Ads Of The 'Mad Men' Era That Companies Wish We'd Forget

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"Mad Men" is famous for illuminating a bygone era, replete with three-martini lunches, glamorous clothing, and, of course, casual sexism. The rampant sexism in "Mad Men" was typical of the 1960s, when the outlook for women in America was just beginning to change.

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https://www.tutor2u.net/psychology/reference/conformity-asch-1951

A study that reached a conclusion of conformity. Those who have opposing views even if they are correct alter their perception and decision to conform to the larger majority.

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Asch's sample consisted of 50 male students from Swarthmore College in America, who believed they were taking part in a vision test. Asch used a line judgement task, where he placed on real naïve participants in a room with seven confederates (actors), who had agreed their answers in advance. The real participant was deceived and was led to believe that the other seven people were also real participants. The real participant always sat second to last.

In turn, each person had to say out loud which line (A, B or C) was most like the target line in length.

Unlike Jenness' experiment, the correct answer was always obvious. Each participant completed 18 trials and the confederates gave the same incorrect answer on 12 trials, called critical trials. Asch wanted to see if the real participant would conform to the majority view, even when the answer was clearly incorrect.

Asch measured the number of times each participant conformed to the majority view. On average, the real participants conformed to the incorrect answers on 32% of the critical trials. 74% of the participants conformed on at least one critical trial and 26% of the participants never conformed. Asch also used a control group, in which one real participant completed the same experiment without any confederates. He found that less than 1% of the participants gave an incorrect answer.

Asch interviewed his participants after the experiment to find out why they conformed. Most of the participants said that they knew their answers were incorrect, but they went along with the group in order to fit in, or because they thought they would be ridiculed. This confirms that participants conformed due to normative social influence and the desire to fit in.

Evaluation of Asch

Asch used a biased sample of 50 male students from Swarthmore College in America. Therefore, we cannot generalise the results to other populations, for example female students, and we are unable to conclude if female students would have conformed in a similar way to male students. As a result Asch's sample lacks population validity and further research is required to determine whether males and females conform differently

Furthermore, it could be argued that Asch's experiment has low levels of ecological validity. Asch's test of conformity, a line judgement task, is an artificial task, which does not reflect conformity in everyday life. Consequently, we are unable to generalise the results of Asch to other real life situations, such as why people may start smoking or drinking around friends, and therefore these results are limited in their application to everyday life.

Finally, Asch's research is ethically questionable. He broke several ethical guidelines, including: deception and protection from harm. Asch deliberately deceived his participants, saying that they were taking part in a vision test and not an experiment on conformity. Although it is seen as unethical to deceive participants, Asch's experiment required deception in order to achieve valid results. If the participants were aware of the true aim they would have displayed demand characteristics and acted differently. In addition, Asch's participants were not protected from psychological harm and many of the participants reporting feeling stressed when they disagreed with the majority. However, Asch interviewed all of his participants following the experiment to overcome this issue.

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Conformity - Asch (1951) | tutor2u Psychology

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Asch's sample consisted of 50 male students from Swarthmore College in America, who believed they were taking part in a vision test. Asch used a line judgement task, where he placed on real naïve participants in a room with seven confederates (actors), who had agreed their answers in advance.

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1509/jppm.08.043

A study that looked into the developing mind of young adults and how interactions with social media and the internet affected there development.

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19359705.2013.777007

The communities built online create a Sefer environment and a sense of belonging. This allows people within communities to develop confidence and pride in who they are, such as LGBTQ+.

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Internet-based new media are increasingly utilized by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth, yet little is known about the ways in which it influences their identity development. Employing grounded theory, this study explores the influence of online media on the identity development and coming out processes ( n = 19) of LGBTQ youth. Results indicate that new media enabled participants to access resources, explore identity, find likeness, and digitally engage in coming out. Participants also discussed the expansion of these newly developed identities into their offline lives. Practice implications are addressed.

Acknowledgments

The amazing youth participants who generously provided their time and insight are acknowledged. This study was funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant (#491406).

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You Can Form a Part of Yourself Online: The Influence of New Media on Identity Development and Coming Out for LGBTQ Youth

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Internet-based new media are increasingly utilized by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth, yet little is known about the ways in which it influences their identity development. Employing grounded theory, this study explores the influence of online media on the identity development and coming out processes ( n = 19) of LGBTQ youth.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0193397304000772

Affects of internet use on teens and adolescence... Boys spend longer on the web, play violent video games and in turn stray towards more violent behaviours (Theory).

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Abstract

As adolescent Internet use grew exponentially in the last decade, with it emerged a number of correspondent expectations. Among them were the following: (1) that gender predicts usage, i.e., that boys spend more time online, surfing the web and playing violent games, while girls chat or shop online; (2) that Internet use causes social isolation and depression, especially for teens; and (3) that adolescents use the Internet for anonymous identity experimentation. These expectations were based on research with earlier technologies when the Internet was less diffused in the adolescent population. By means of highly detailed daily reports of adolescents' home Internet usage and peer-related adjustment, the present research sought to compare these expectations with the actual experiences of early and mid-adolescents in 2000 and 2001. Participants were 261 7th and 10th graders from suburban California public schools who completed four consecutive end-of-day reports on their school-based adjustment and Internet activity (including detailed logs of instant messages). Results challenge prevailing expectations regarding gender, well-being, and identity play. For the most part, adolescent boys' and girls' online activities have become more similar than different. On average, boys and girls alike described their online social interaction as (1) occurring in private settings such as e-mail and instant messages, (2) with friends who are also part of their daily, offline lives, and (3) devoted to fairly ordinary yet intimate topics (e.g., friends, gossip). No associations were found between Internet usage and well-being. Online pretending was reported to be motivated by a desire to play a joke on friends more often than to explore a desired or future identity, but participants reported a range of pretending content, contexts, and motives.

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Adolescent Internet use: What we expect, what teens report

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As adolescent Internet use grew exponentially in the last decade, with it emerged a number of correspondent expectations. Among them were the following: (1) that gender predicts usage, i.e., that boys spend more time online, surfing the web and playing violent games, while girls chat or shop online; (2) that Internet use causes social isolation and depression, especially for teens; and (3) that adolescents use the Internet for anonymous identity experimentation.

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The Mediating Role of Consumer Conformity in E-Compulsive Buying

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The Mediating Role of Consumer Conformity in E-Compulsive Buying

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https://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/13305

Why do we as a culture fell the need to consume as much as we do? What's the reasoning behind the mass consumption of products found online?

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Both the convenience of online shopping and the lack of normative standards on the Internet can cause online compulsive buying. Considering the negative consequences of online compulsive buying, Internet tools for reminding of social norms are needed to reduce online compulsive buying. Virtual communities can affect consumer buying behavior because they also can be social groups. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to explore the relationship between conformity in virtual communities and online compulsive buying tendencies. This study also attempts to examine the influence of two external variables, the sense of belongingness and member expertise on conformity.

Citation:

Yun Jung Lee and JungKun Park (2008) ,"The Mediating Role of Consumer Conformity in E-Compulsive Buying", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 35, eds. Angela Y. Lee and Dilip Soman, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 387-392.

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>The Mediating Role of Consumer Conformity in E-Compulsive Buying | ACR

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Both the convenience of online shopping and the lack of normative standards on the Internet can cause online compulsive buying. Considering the negative consequences of online compulsive buying, Internet tools for reminding of social norms are needed to reduce online compulsive buying. Virtual commu…

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Adolescents’ identity experiments on the internet

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Adolescents’ identity experiments on the internet

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444805052282

Research into the uses of the internet for those aged 9-17. An experiment highlighting the utilisation of the internet. Giving insight into the broader uses of the internet outside of the study and the possible affects this will have.

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0093650207313164
A survey that looked to develop the correlation between adolescence and identity, how teens often use the internet to experiment, research and develop their own identities.

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