My Facebook profile: Copy, resemblance, or simulacrum?

Kreps, DGP

Abstract

This paper offers a theoretical reading of the phenomenon and experience of the social networking site, Facebook, through an exploration of how loyally a Facebook profile can represent the essence of an individual, and whether such Platonic notions of essence and loyalty of copy are disturbed by the nature of a social networking site profile, in ways described by Deleuze’s notions of the reversal of Platonism. In bringing a post-structuralist critique to a hugely successful and popular information
system, the paper attempts to open up the black box of the ‘user’ and explore how notions of the Self might be reflected through engagement with IS.

Citation

Kreps, D. (2008, June). My Facebook profile: Copy, resemblance, or simulacrum?. Presented at 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
• Conference Location: National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
• Start Date: Jun 9, 2008
• End Date: Jun 11, 2008
• Deposit Date: Jan 16, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 16, 2009
• Publisher URL: http://www.ecis2008.ie/
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference