The internet and digital platforms harbor a deceptive sense of security, as our reliance on technology grows and we become accustomed to trading privacy for convenience and ease. How do we gain back agency over our digital identities and embrace a slow and present social experience? To address issues of digital presence and its relationship with consumerism, the project utilizes auto-ethnographic research of my personal digital profiles and datafied presence as a consumer, the tracing tactic to reveal the tracking methods utilized by platform corporations, and collective disruptive tool making. The project comprised of two main parts in the forms of a website and downaloadble file. The first is an interactive narrative experience in the form of a digital marketplace where the user browses and shops for my personal data with their own information as the form of payment. This guides users to conduct their own auto-ethnographic research of their digital identities and utilizes the theme of information as currency. The second is a community archive of tools and methods for prompting self-reflection and disrupting and resisting normative platform usages. This collection is available as plain text documents in a zip. Format to avoid reliance on platforms. Aiming at fostering an ongoing discussion on how to experience life through new perspectives and gain autonomy over our choices online, the project offers an experiential way of understanding the power of personal information and self-reflective tools for further discourse regarding digital privacy.
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