{"id":781,"date":"2010-12-10T14:01:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=781"},"modified":"2010-12-12T18:42:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T22:42:35","slug":"theory-meets-art-siavosh-zabeti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2010\/12\/10\/theory-meets-art-siavosh-zabeti\/","title":{"rendered":"theory meets art: Siavosh Zabeti"},"content":{"rendered":"

M<\/a>any worry<\/a> about the immortality of our behavior on social network sites like Facebook. Regrettable behaviors\u00a0can become Facebook Skeletons<\/a> in your digital closet. However, I have argued before<\/a> that what is equally true is that our online presence is extremely ephemeral<\/em>. Status updates speed by, perhaps delighting us in the moment, but are quickly forgotton. The innundation of photographs of yourself and others is so heavy that particular moments often become lost in the flow. Our digital content may live forever, but it does so in relative obscurity. <\/em>Just try searching for that witty status update your friend made on Facebook last month. It is this ephemerality\u00a0of our online social lives that makes this art\/design project by Siavosh Zabeti<\/a> so interesting. When our Facebook lives are placed in a book, our socialization grasps at the tactile\u00a0permanence\u00a0of the physical.<\/p>\n

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When Facebook becomes a book<\/a> from Siavosh Zabeti<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If books like this became popular, would we create our Facebook presence any differently given this new, more physical medium?<\/p>\n

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Many worry about the immortality of our behavior on social network sites like Facebook. Regrettable behaviors\u00a0can become Facebook Skeletons in your digital closet. However, I have argued before that what is equally true is that our online presence is extremely ephemeral. Status updates speed by, perhaps delighting us in the moment, but are quickly forgotton. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[323],"tags":[36424,10193,36425,2603,10191,942,10189,10190,8497,4454,1642,10192,10194,732,545,175,331,66,3753],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-art","tag-book","tag-data","tag-digital","tag-ephemerality","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-skeletons","tag-immortality","tag-information","tag-memory","tag-myspace","tag-physical","tag-physical-book","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking-sites","tag-sociology","tag-the-internet","tag-theory","tag-web-2-0"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}