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The Social Media Panopticon. Eroding Identity, Choice and Genuine Friendship.
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Abstract This paper explores how social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram function as digital panopticons, fundamentally reshaping identity, agency and authentic relationships. Drawing from Bentham’s panopticon theory, the analysis explores how users are simultaneously observers and the observed, compelled to curate false identities. The emergence of performative identity as a survival strategy…

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