Problem:
Around 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois argued that "double consciousness" is a defining feature of life for Black Americans, and later scholars have broadened the range of people who struggle with the disconnect between how you see yourself and how you are seen. How has the internet and special media changed this experience of double consciousness? To some degree everyone "fakes it" on social media, but what kinds of behaviors are incentivized on your feed? And how does the ability to curate your social world a potential way to change the dynamics of this double consciousness?