Digital Exhibition

Ana Munar states that the new interactive web is a vehicle for the digital exposure of personal lives, which float in cyber space on different types of social networks. Through the method of Netnography, a researcher assimilates to a chosen online community or communities and through empirical observation is able to characterize the demographic. What I found particularly interesting was the idea of a realtime scrap book through which users are able to chronicle their lives, whether they are aware of it or not. As Munar states, people have documented their lives since the beginning of time. From cave paintings to journals to memoirs to blogging, the process is under a continuous state of change, but the constant is the human desire to document. 

     We are in the new age of rapidity, which is not only conveyed by the technology we use but also our mindset. People using social media sites constantly stream their thoughts into cyberspace for other people to read and cause people to be more "vocal" than they otherwise would in day to day conversation. Perhaps that is what was meant by reflexive versus reflex behavior. These quips and insights into an individuals mind are stored on the internet and create a  timeline of their information. Typically, an autobiography or memoir is written with some intent, which is why I would choose not to categorize the collection of an individuals posts to summate to such. It is simply that, a collection of thoughts.