The role of fantasy in social media use: A lacanian approach to digital youth

TY - JOUR

T1 - The role of fantasy in social media use

T2 - A lacanian approach to digital youth

AU - Hjøllund, Niels-Peder Osmundsen

PY - 2015/8

Y1 - 2015/8

N2 - The main objective of this article is to ask how the use of social media influences the formation the formation of the subject and thereby to explore aspects of a psychoanalytical theoretical framework for analysis, that could point to transformational features in the formation of discourses and how these influences young people's way of appropriating information. This article framework is part of a larger research project which examines digital youth and their use of social media in everyday life and education. The article will investigate the following questions, "How does social media use and technological interfacing affect the formation of the subject?" And "What consequences does the use of social media and the technological interfacing have on how we as human subjects appropriate and disseminate information?" My analysis of the questions above are inspired by Jacques Lacan and his psychoanalytical theory of subjectivity and the phantasmatic framing of the subjects desire.

AB - The main objective of this article is to ask how the use of social media influences the formation the formation of the subject and thereby to explore aspects of a psychoanalytical theoretical framework for analysis, that could point to transformational features in the formation of discourses and how these influences young people's way of appropriating information. This article framework is part of a larger research project which examines digital youth and their use of social media in everyday life and education. The article will investigate the following questions, "How does social media use and technological interfacing affect the formation of the subject?" And "What consequences does the use of social media and the technological interfacing have on how we as human subjects appropriate and disseminate information?" My analysis of the questions above are inspired by Jacques Lacan and his psychoanalytical theory of subjectivity and the phantasmatic framing of the subjects desire.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1604-7869

VL - 4

SP - 53

EP - 62

JO - Nordisk Tidsskrift for Informationsvidenskab og Kulturformidling

JF - Nordisk Tidsskrift for Informationsvidenskab og Kulturformidling

IS - 2

ER -