The Social Media Philosophy Project is a collective effort by members of the social media community which attempts to explore the philosophical implications of social technologies.
The kinds of questions considered:
- What does it mean to be “ethical” online?
- Does social media blur the lines of the traditional public versus private divide?
- What is the relationship between our social presence and our sense of personal identity?
We use the very thing we study, using this blog, microblogs like Twitter and Plurk, vlogs like Seesmic and YouTube, interactions in virtual worlds like Second Life and There, and any other means social media makes available to us.
About thePuck
Author, Poet, Coder. Maybe a ninja. We’ll never know.
Neal Jansons, known online as “thePuck”, is an author, poet, and coder who spends his time thinking, writing, and solving interesting problems. His fiction work has appeared in the Lovecraft eZine and has been used as the basis for the upcoming online game Ghostees!, published by BakedOn Entertainment, and his non-fiction work has previously been published in “Thinking Critically” (10th ed.), published by Wadsworth Publishing and Cengage Learning, Inc./Nelson Education Ltd., and in “Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing” (5th ed.), also published by Wadsworth Publishing and Cengage Learning, Inc./Nelson Education Ltd. He has been interviewed by Mashable, and maintains a strong social media presence online.