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<\/figure>\n<\/h2>\nBehind the scenes<\/h2>\n
It all started with me setting out to do the daily create<\/a>. We were meant to explore boundaries in a video. \u00a0I thought about it all day and decided I wanted to focus on social boundaries. What happens when these collapse and we end up airing our dirty linen in public without intending to? I remembered about the idea of context collapse as described by Michael Wesch<\/a>\u00a0amongst others.\u00a0<\/p>\n Re-read the paper and it also explored what happens one step beyond contexts collapsing for us in our virtual lives. We imagine and prototype of\u00a0\u2018the public\u2019 but this overwhelms us. So we hide \u00a0in an \u2018ideal private\u2019 that is context free as we broadcast ourselves to the world (potentially). All that is left is the echo of ego in the mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n Context collapse takes on a new dimension in which the Mike\u2019s\u00a0 paper is about You Tube Vlogging and how it can be used to develop self awareness. I figured I could turn this inside out by using to tell the story of Dr M who is looking to find ways to\u00a0\u2018get residents to give information\u2019 in the fictional village of The Prisoner.<\/p>\n It was of interest to me that in the prisoner the psychological torture is always about deleting contexts. A sense of claustrophobia develops as you watch as the psyche turns inwards. In that case physical and mental. In the case our online lives, contexts collapse via social media. Is there a way that context collapse may affect our mental health? This led me to the idea of spiritual narcism.<\/p>\n Spiritual narcissism is the feeling or thought that 1) I\u00b4m a spiritually advanced being, enlightened, third tier etc. and 2) because of that I deserve love and respect.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In the series, N6 has only himself. Can he trust himself? Does this drive him mad? I am reminded of the idea of being an \u2018un-mutual\u2019 in one of the episodes. Compliance in that case is forced by the threat of complete isolation. As N6 walks around the village, everyone turns away. It made me wonder if this\u00a0\u2018idealised private context\u2019 we create when we engage in open online activity is to some extent driven by our fear of becoming \u2018un-mutual\u2019. Feeling suitably dystopian after #prisoner106 work today.\u00a0<\/p>\n The daily create turned into a whole day\u2019s exploration. Boundaries and what they mean have always interested me. Perhaps I should have kept to physical spaces….my front porch?<\/p>\n I cannot even start to offer information about the making of the video. Nothing worked as planned. I was going to be a\u00a0\u2018quick\u2019 iMovie pull together a few fun things to take the story forward and explore boundaries. Let me just say it was not that. I ended up having to find and relearn the old iMovie. There was ScreenFlow, there was Audacity, there was Quicktime, there was Freesound.org and a stiff neck from sitting here all day making this\u00a0\u2018quick\u2019 daily create. In the end, I was reminded of the simplicity and ease of the old iMovie as well as had much fun thinking about human boundaries collapsing, us becoming overwhelmed by the whole of life being accessible online and that driving us mad. <insert suitably scary loud laughter sound here><\/p>\n\n
\ncollapse of infinite possible contexts, what we might call a virtual \u201cideal type\u201d
\nof \u201cthe public,\u201d itself collapses with the individual\u2019s construction of an ideal
\nprivate outside of all contexts. The scene exemplifies what Anthony Elliot and
\nCharles Lemert (2005) describe in The New Individualism as the \u201cdisappearance
\nof context\u201d in which \u201cwe have replaced the old contexts of tradition and custom
\nwith a focus on our individual selves\u201d (p. 13).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n