Are you yourself on Twitter?  Who is the real Twitter you?  Why do you send me such horny DMs? 

 

We examine the psychology of Twitter engagement, what researchers can and can't find out about your personality from your tweets, ponder whether Adam Curtis was right to posit distorted versions of ourselves in data warehouses, weigh up the political value of "authenticity", get lost in a sea of signs, interrogate our Tony Blair cover art, and then search for a sparkling exit in Andy Warhol shoes. 

 

Also, Danny DeVito and the Nabisco strike.  

 

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Why You Clicked on That Tweet: The Psychology of Twitter Engagement 

 

Tech companies use “persuasive design” to get us hooked. Psychologists say it’s unethical - Chavie Lieber (2018) in Vox 

 

How Twitter Fuels Anxiety - Laura Turner (2017) in The Atlantic 

 

Language of ADHD in Adults on Social Media - Guntuku et al (2017) 

 

What Do Your Spaces Say About You? - Lindsay T. Graham (2018) 

 

The 'Big 5' Personality Traits 

 

A tale of two sites: Twitter vs. Facebook and the personality predictors of social media usage - David John Hughes et al (2012) 

 

Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Adam Curtis (2021) 

 

I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience - Marwick et al (2010) 

 

Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity - E. Patrick Johnson (2003) 

 

Authenticity on “Black Twitter”: Reading Racial Performance and Social Networking - Raven S. Maragh (2017)  

 

Brand Twitter and Fake Activism | A Response to Steak-Umm - Video by Zoe Bee 

 

George Mack tweet 

 

Dunbar's number 

 

A page on Jean Baudrillard and hyperreality 

 

A selection of quotes by Jean Baudrillard 

 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for Jean Baudrillard 

 

Ubik by Philip K. Dick (1969) 

 

Introduction to Fredric Jameson 

 

American Psycho - Business Card Scene 

 

Intro to Linda Hutcheon on parody 

 

Jo Swinson's Been Forced To Deny She Kills Squirrels Thanks To A Twitter User Churning Out Viral Fake Election Stories (2019) 

 

Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - Fredric Jameson (1984) 

 

A Pair of Shoes by Van Gogh (1886) 

 

Diamond Dust Shoes by Andy Warhol (1980) 

 

Tetsuo, The Iron Man dir. Shynia Tsukamoto (1989) - Trailer 

 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for Authenticity  

 

Nabisco bakers across the US are on strike, potentially disrupting Oreo supply 

 

Danny DeVito Abruptly Loses Twitter Verification After Tweeting Support For Nabisco Strike