Social Media and the Colonization of the Psyche with Jane Clapp

Part 3 of 3 in our series titled You Don't Have to Be An Influencer.

In today’s episode I’m delighted to have a special guest: Jane Clapp. Jane is the founder of Jungian Somatics and an advanced candidate with the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts. She has worked at the intersection of the body and psyche as a movement coach and an embodiment educator for over two decades.

Jane and I met in the embodiment space years ago, and just about one year ago we went through similar reckonings around social media and both left the platforms.

We discuss Jane's experience of finding success for her small business by marketing on social media platforms, how that effected her both for good and for ill, how platforms have changed since their early days, the broad scope of how algorithms determine the landscape of our world, her academic paper titled: Social Media and the Collective Unconscious: Archetypal Algorithms and the Colonization of the Psyche, and why she chose to leave social media platforms even though it would cost her revenue.

SHOW NOTES

You can find more of my work here: simpleprospering.com

For more of Jane's work www.janeclapp.com (subscribe to her newsletter to follow her work since she is not on social!)

My first episode with Jane on Liberated Being about why we were leaving social media https://www.liberatedbeing.community/podcast/episode/3766fa39/ep-97-how-social-media-is-changing-us-with-jane-clapp

Jaron Lanier’s website http://www.jaronlanier.com/

Jaron Lanier’s TED talk How We Need to Remake the Internet https://www.ted.com/talks/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake_the_internet?language=en

Renata Ramirez on Data Mining https://www.sandiego.edu/blogs/business/detail.php?_focus=76022

Dr Iain Micgilchrist https://channelmcgilchrist.com/

Article Jane mentioned on how hypernudges in the algorithm affect us: https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2017/01/algocracy-as-hypernudging-new-way-to.html