The document discusses three aspects of living in media: 1) artifacts like constructing multiple versions of ourselves, 2) activities such as creating and maintaining profiles, and 3) arrangements of the mediascape or media life. It notes both the challenges of finding authentic connections with others online and the altered subjective experiences that can result, including an unstable sense of identity. The document explores how the ordinary is changed through media and the search for meaning that occurs within it.

2. LIVING IN (NOT WITH) MEDIA

3. LIVING IN (NOT WITH) MEDIA 1. artefacts

10. LIVING IN (NOT WITH) MEDIA 2. activities

16. LIVING IN (NOT WITH) MEDIA 3. arrangements

25. SO WHAT?

26. CREATING/MAINTAINING MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF OUR SELVES

30. MEDIASPHERE …

31. or MEDIASCAPE ?

32. TOGETHER ALONE

33. WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE?

34. “Entering cyberspace can be a sign of an authentic search for personal encounters with others, provided that attention is paid to avoiding dangers such as enclosing oneself in a sort of parallel existence, or excessive exposure to the virtual world. In the search for sharing, for ‘friends’, there is the challenge to be authentic and faithful, and not give in to the illusion of constructing an artificial public profile for oneself.”

38. there is the sense that the ordinary is changed or different, and that there is particular significance in this; this is coupled with a searching for meaning; a profound alteration of subjective experience and of self-awareness, resulting in an unstable first-person perspective with varieties of depersonalization and derealization, disturbed sense of ownership, fluidity of the basic sense of identity, distortions of the stream of consciousness and experiences of disembodiment. Paolo Fusar-Poli, Oliver Howes, Lucia Valmaggia & Philip McGuire in The British Journal of Psychiatry – September 2008

39. THIS IS NOT AN EXIT

41. MEDIA

42. to find out more about the media life project… #medialife