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Social Media As Second Creation: Cyber-Space As A Denial Of Cosmic Community, Carter Ford
Social Media As Second Creation: Cyber-Space As A Denial Of Cosmic Community, Carter Ford
Scholar Week 2016 - present
Social media aims to move the communal sphere into the digital world. It is often quipped that the current generation is the most “connected” yet “disconnected” generation in history. If social media truly succeeds in moving the social community into a digital sphere, what is the source of the widely experienced disconnect from one another? I will argue that evaluating social media in light of Bonhoeffer’s cosmic community reveals that social media insufficiently invades the space of human relationship, not capable of supporting either connection between individuals or creation. Thus, rather than affirming real relationship online, social media replaces community …