‘The way we negotiate public life has changed,’ (Moore, 2023) and as I develop the premise of my digital artefact, this week we are introducing the concept of online personas and reflexively analysing our own projects through the vector of peer reviews. As someone who dwelled in the before internet land, I find the expression of persona intriguing and have noted that as friends or people I follow gain success, there online presence becomes predictable and consistent in tone and imagery to a level of collective expectation.

‘The five dimensions of online persona explored here—the public, the mediatised, the performative, the collective, and intentional value—build upon that work and, we contend, form a productive means for understanding the configuration of online identity in the contemporary era.’

Incase you missed me percolating my ideas on my own digital artefact – it will entail an instagram based performance of me learning Shibari from the perspective of someone who has been immersed in this niche, yet never taken the reins(rope) myself. My aim is to play around with the restrictions and affordances of this field site and show a trajectory of progression from model to rigger.

I didn’t receive any feedback on my digital artefact pitch which in itself is a form of feedback. Perhaps my concept wasn’t accessible, lacked clarity or felt too unfamiliar for viewers. Or potentially none of this, I know that I steered away from reviewing pitches that were unrecognisable to me, thus reflecting a bias. Through the process of review I garnered ideas on how to lay out my own ideas more concisely and narrow my observation in my niche.

With this in mind, I have included a video that depicts Shibari #ropeart to give you a break from my talking A.I buddies and anchors you and subsequently me to a more authentic vision of what’s to come as I mull over Zizi Papacharrissi’s poignantly expressed extrapolation of the ‘networked self.’

‘The construction of a subjective performance across multiple and simultaneous streams of social awareness that expands autonomy, potentially reduces agency and which requires constant self- surveillance and monitoring.’ (Moore et. al)

As I want to foster a sense of belonging to the Shibari community through my content, I will be considering the interplay between my online persona, permissible content and monitoring the response I get. There seems to be less room for error these days, especially as our real world identity becomes more deeply intertwined with our previously seperate oscillations of self.

It all starts with a name – Knot.all.that.

Moore, C, Barbour, k, Lee, k 5 Dimensions of online Persona, Persona Studies 2017, volume 3, no.1.

Heading – Moore, C, Lecture video week 4, 2023.