I have a terrific conversation with Taylor Bell, Jesse Kavadlo, and Seth Matteson about their USEM: Social ME-dia and the Glow Up

Glow up: “To go from the bottom to the top to the point of disbelief. An incredible transformation” (Urban Dictionary). Together, our class will explore the ways in which social media and internet culture influence the perils, pleasures, and paradoxes of personal transformation today. Using social and cultural psychology, our and other people’s stories, through various social media platforms (i.e. FaceBook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram), we will explore our self and identity as well as the multiple perspectives of those around us. What are consequences of media on social and emotional interactions, public and private selves, and personal vs. social roles? And how does all that affect who we will become?