I’m really excited to be a part of a conference being billed as “the Davos of Twitter”.  It will be a chance for me to discuss the ideas I’m exploring on this site with some of the biggest names in social media.  Jeff Pulver is very cool to throw a renegade philosopher internet mash-up thinker like me into the mix. The idea of a conference being made up of a cast of people playing (in whatever way they decide) a version of the character they are on Twitter is very intriguing to an unrepentant internet charlatan such as myself. Twitter is an example of how we constantly create selves—approaching everything we do not as a single “true” self but as a multiplicity—a crowded crew of eclectic possibilities for interaction with others and the world. Living one’s life in social media garners an awareness for this multiplicity.  The act of logging in and going online makes us more aware of the character we’re invoking—whereas in the “real world” our personality shifts might seem more seamless.  Instead of trying to winnow down the selves to one, I want to explore how social media can help us engage as multiplicities—how we can communicate in forms of many-to-many—as networks and streams and ever-mutating organic groups.

I’m really excited to be a part of a conference being billed as “the Davos of Twitter”.  It will be a chance for me to discuss the ideas I’m exploring on this site with some of the biggest names in social media.  Jeff Pulver is very cool to throw a renegade philosopher internet mash-up thinker like me into the mix.

The idea of a conference being made up of a cast of people playing (in whatever way they decide) a version of the character they are on Twitter is very intriguing to an unrepentant internet charlatan such as myself. Twitter is an example of how we constantly create selves—approaching everything we do not as a single “true” self but as a multiplicity—a crowded crew of eclectic possibilities for interaction with others and the world.

Living one’s life in social media garners an awareness for this multiplicity.  The act of logging in and going online makes us more aware of the character we’re invoking—whereas in the “real world” our personality shifts might seem more seamless.  Instead of trying to winnow down the selves to one, I want to explore how social media can help us engage as multiplicities—how we can communicate in forms of many-to-many—as networks and streams and ever-mutating organic groups.