- All of digital embodiment is performance because there is no “being” in the space without writing oneself into it — by your words, through video, through engagement, etc. You must *act* to be digitally embodied, where you only have to *be* to be corporeally embodied. - You have to articulate the self. Recreate the self. I think that’s partially why [[{1.2a1a1a} online authenticity paradox|authenticity online is a impossible]] — you cannot write yourself without performing the self. There is no objectivity. In other words: **Being online inherently requires you to curate a persona**. - This comes from danah boyd, who [[boyd, danah - 2007 - None of this is Real|wrote]] about this idea of *articulating identity online* on the early social networking platform Friendster. It was a challenge for early social media users because, for the first time, they had to think about what to formalize and broadcast about themselves in this limited environment. It’s further exacerbated by the [[{1.2a2} context collapse]] of [[{1.2} social context shapes the way we perform identity|social context]]. - [[2024-06-23]] — I’ve been thinking about whether the overarching Thing I’m “studying” can be called *digital embodiment*, but it sounds like this has a pretty specific meaning these days related to actually being *embodied* in digital spaces.