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| The Communal Self Identity |
Just as people use common language and signals to communicate and
create a sense of identity, community, and place, they can use a common narrative
to create a stronger and even more meaningful sense of place than before. Kuttainen
(2016) commented on the idea that ‘communication
over vastly larger spaces unites people quickly’, which when applied to the AAFC
Alumni network holds true, as the AAFC is split into 8 ‘Wings’ all around
Australia and often people will travel to a different wing for a certain Course
or event. This means that there are cadets all over the nation with friends and
connections that live in other parts of the country. Facebook (specifically
through the AAFC Alumni network pages and groups) are able to connect these
people and allow them to then share stories and inadvertently create new ones
together (many examples of networked narratives) just as the newspaper and
train networks did in the time of their creation.
When ex-cadets connect through Facebook, they
are acknowledging a single faucet of the self identity they have used Facebook
to create as an online auto/biography. This links well with McNeill’s (2012)
general view of the post humanist online and how it is a compartmentalized and separated
view of oneself. This is the view that we are not simply an independent being,
that we are made up of many parts with many contributors to our identity. In
this context, being an ex-cadet is simply a portion of someone’s personality
and identity.
When Jullian
Baggini (2011) explains a person, he follows (loosely) McNeill’s model of the
construction of a person and their identity. What Baggini doesn’t mention but
McNeill definitely brings to the table is that the parts of a person that
Baggini mentions is a culmination of a world of influences, people
included.
Baggini,
J. (2011, November). Is there a real you?
Retrieved from TED.com: https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_baggini_is_there_a_real_you
Kuttainen, V. (2016).
BA1002: Our space: networks, narratives
and the making of place, Lecture 6:
Networked narratives. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au
McNeill, L. (2012).
There is no ‘I’ in Network: Social networking sites and posthuman
auto-biography. Biography, 35 (1),
65-82. doi:10.1353/bio.2012.0009
Nacada web Events . (2016, April 06).
Retrieved September 02, 2016, from
https://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Portals/0/Webinars/documents/DW68%20Intersectionality%20HANDOUT.pdf
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