Social narrative
Visiting a friend’s place that has before been heavily featured on Flickr is no different from visiting a set where a familiar movie was shot. The similarities between social media and narrative media, as we tried to sketch with this project in 2005 are becoming increasingly visible and are merging into one stream.
Everyone’s an actor now, creating a great number of what Jyri Engeström calls Social Objects on the way. Maybe even TV shows like Big Brother were an early sign of that, in the way that they turned the private (although it is a scripted private) into a form of entertainment. Consequentially, according to psychiatrists in Montréal, there’s now what they call the Truman Show Disorder, which has people believe they actually are actors in a script.