Throughout the course of each day, we are confronted with continuous feeds of images, rhetoric, and experiences — some verifiable, some invented and many in between. The distance between the author and the reader has increased into abstraction. On an individual level, many of us select representations of our lives on social media, curating what we want to enforce as an image of ourselves to friends, colleagues, strangers, and perhaps most importantly to ourselves. On a larger scale, history functions as a filter that presents a single image — a limited and reductive version of our shared past.

In todays  episode we discuss Image over reality and how it plays an important part in influencing behaviour, everyday lives, and the world stage. 

We further discuss, the role toilets played in this predicament with laws being passed to enforce behaviour, and we discuss why make-up can be perceived as a lie by some, a stark difference from reality. 

Our apologies about the sound quality, we ended up doing the podcast via the phone app due to various reasons.... 

We hope you find the show enlightening and food for thought. 

Sources: 

https://petapixel.com/2012/12/14/how-fake-photos-are-messing-with-our-perception-of-reality/

http://www.wordyard.com/2009/07/08/images-are-not-a-representation-of-reality/

https://www.zooma.se/en/learn/image-vs-reality-make-the-image-never-lie

https://observer.com/2016/12/between-image-and-reality-how-we-all-perceive-the-world/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/perfect-me/202001/girls-who-wear-makeup-are-fake

https://medium.com/invisible-illness/instagram-is-destroying-your-mental-health-fc7ee0ac17e5#:~:text=The%20results%20were%20horrifying%20%E2%80%94%20Instagram,ability%20to%20get%20good%20sleep.

The Tenuous Relationship Between Instagram and Teen Self-Identity | Brenda K. Wiederhold.Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.Apr 2018.215-216 | http://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2018.29108.bkw, Published in Volume: 21 Issue 4: April 1, 2018

Sherlock, M., & Wagstaff, D. L. (2019). Exploring the relationship between frequency of Instagram use, exposure to idealized images, and psychological well-being in women. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(4), 482–490. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000182

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