1. The document discusses how new media is altering subjective experience and self-awareness, resulting in an unstable sense of identity. 2. It notes that ordinary reality seems changed, coupled with a search for meaning in this transformation. 3. Experiences of depersonalization, derealization, disturbed ownership and fluid identity are described as part of a profound change in consciousness brought on by new media like reality TV and social media.

1. Media Studies for a Life in Media
08 Life in Media

2. Matías Almargen (2018)

7. Options - +
WAR Media Literacy Homo Ludens
SURRENDER Theoretical
Violence
Hacking
MEDIA Become like
Machines
Decenter the
Media

9. 1.0
3.0 4.0
2.0

12. “the TSD is the pathological product of our
insatiable appetite for self-exposure”
“warrantless wiretapping and video
surveillance systems [...] widely
accessible technology [...] reality TV
shows and MySpace" - as squaring with
the Truman Show's basic premise”
“new media [are] opening up
vast social spaces that might
be interacting with
psychological processes”

13. 1. there is the sense that the ordinary is changed
or different, and that there is particular
significance in this
1. this is coupled with a searching for meaning
1. 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

14. 1. there is the sense that the ordinary is changed
or different, and that there is particular
significance in this
1. this is coupled with a searching for meaning
1. 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.

18. 1. there is the sense that the ordinary is changed
or different, and that there is particular
significance in this
1. this is coupled with a searching for meaning
1. 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.

20. “I am known therefore I am”

21. “I am seen, therefore I am”

22. “I share, therefore I am”

23. 1. there is the sense that the ordinary is changed
or different, and that there is particular
significance in this
1. this is coupled with a searching for meaning
1. 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.

34. digital nutrition

35. emotional (media)

37. MEDIA