In this episode we will explore the autobiographical urge, or why people are driven to share about themselves online - and give you some tools for thinking about your own online behavior that will help you make more sustainable and thoughtful choices in your own autobiographical content.

In this episode we talk about the business model of social media platforms and the commodity that makes them work: attention.  Your audience’s attention, but also your attention as a content creator.    great links in this episode:   The Guardian Article that is also an excerpt from Johann Hari’s new Book is well worth a read and a good day of mulling over afterward: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-screens-apps-smartphones-social-media?fbclid=IwAR2Lx8rmJl8yEXmb7ubF47B4V2bCYPUAngIXH7LkuSszrEfU-07J-lZpBRg   And his new book is titled: “Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention” It’s available everywhere you buy books January 25th.    If you’re interested in more scholarship on audience work or audience attention as a commodity, I can recommend these academic papers:   Dallas Walker Smythe - Dependency Road: Communications, capitalism, consciousness, and Canada. “On the audience commodity and its work” Ablex publishing corporation . New Jersey 1981.  Fisher, Eran. (2012). How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 10. 10.31269/vol10iss2pp171-183.  Garnam, Nicholas.  Emancipation, the Media, and Modernity.  Arguments about the Media and Social Theory. Oxford University Press. 2000.   The Video mentioned in our Midroll Message, “How to Give Your Brain the Stimulation It Needs” by How to ADHD.    Check out our website at www.platformpupil.com   

  In this episode we will start fleshing out how you perceive of your online spaces and how that is informing your decisions and performance there. Some important factors to be aware of so that the choices you make are purposeful and aligned for you.  Check out the New Public Initiative at https://newpublic.org/interactive Priscilla C. Smith’s instagram post quoted in our midroll message is here:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CTfNTdaFQAP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link  The quote from Jenny Komenda is from a July 27, 2011 post that is no longer available, but  she can currently be found online at Juniper home and on instagram as @jennykomenda https://www.instagram.com/jennykomenda/  The Verge article from the end of our episode: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/13/22228208/social-networks-public-spaces-civil-signals    Our theme music is by That Escalated Slowly and Painfully, used with permission Graphics are by Kaylee Dunn Design  

In this quick little episode we are going to invite you to think more deeply about what kind of a space you are creating online.  A lot of conversations about “niche” online become really proscriptive and limiting and promote a kind of sameness that can make it really hard to lean into with authenticity. And guess what?  Niches evolve.  All of them, all the time! Why not play an active role in how yours evolves?   From today’s episode we have a printable here And the link to Joy Clarkson’s bookclub podcast series on Susanna Clark’s Piranesi is here. Theme Music is Coldwater by That Escalated Slowly and Painfully Graphics are by Kaylee Dunn Design

In this episode we will start to really examine what makes you unique by diving in to each element of your identity and the ways you are the same or different from others who share elements of your identity.  This exercise helps people gain SO MUCH clarity about how to show up online in unique and authentic ways! Printable for this episode is here.  Theme Music is Coldwater by That Escalated Slowly and Painfully Graphics are by Kaylee Dunn Design

In this episode we will list all the different parts of our lived identity and determine which parts we actually want to have be a part of our performed identity, at least online.  We'll discuss the ways humans behave in social spaces and think about impression management and what conversations we want to be a part of, and how we control that by deciding what parts of ourselves are onstage.  Printable for this episode are here.   Theme Music is Coldwater by That Escalated Slowly and Painfully Graphics are by Kaylee Dunn Design

In this episode we dive into the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and the role they play in your decision to exist online.  We’ll talk about why it is so important to be clear on your intrinsic motivations and how to keep burnout and resentment at bay.  The printable for this episode is here.  Theme Music is Coldwater by That Escalated Slowly and Painfully Graphics are by Kaylee Dunn Design

This is the very first episode of the Platform Pupil you guys, and I have tortured myself long and hard over how to begin when there is so much I hope to cover in the coming episodes.  Hopefully you will come out the other side of this particular episode with a clear idea of the type of ideas we will discuss together here and with a brain already churning out ways these conversations are going to change your life and the way you engage online.    In this episode we’ll briefly meet your host and discuss some of the reasons that being yourself in online spaces is trickier now than ever.  We’ll outline some of the great troubleshooting that is coming up in our series of launch episodes, and the ways that smart strategizing can keep you from social media burnout.    Theme Music is Coldwater by That Escalated Slowly and Painfully Graphics are by Kaylee Dunn Design