These last pages of "Remediation" bring up a really interesting social question. What happens to your self-image when your identity is created by so much of the digital world?
How does immediacy and hypermediacy change my identity?
Of course, the obvious ones are issues we looked at in our group projects. The one that must applies to my life is Facebook--how does the hypermediacy of facebook redefine my image? Is my page a hypermediate version of myself? I am constantly aware of the pictures I tag of myself, the posts on my wall, etc.
I also was really interested in the section about body image. Unflattering body images can be avoided in your digital image. Is your physical image erased in the digital world?
The author says, "The remediated self is also evident in 'virtual communities' on the Internet, in which individuals stake out and occupy verbal and visual points of view through textual and graphic manifestation, but at the same time constitute their collective identities as a network of affiliations among these mediated selfs."
The concept of your self being remediated means that you are constantly being interpreted through different media: for example, your image is taken in a picture, then put on facebook, then put in an album. Your image is constantly remediated.
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