Tolentino further argues that the internet has distorted the human perception of scale - this meant that an idea was only as important as it was important to each individual. Tolentino suggests that social media platforms have encouraged users to take a performative approach to the internet, in which the audience is imagined to closely follow a user’s every move. The chapters are not told from a chronological order, but rather introduce individual social commentaries on topics such as sexism, racism and classism from Jia Tolentino’s first-person perspective.Ĭhapter one examines the social media revolution, and how individual selfhood has been amplified with a commercialized importance. Trick Mirror is divided into nine chapters that explore separate and independent themes. The following version of the book was used to create the guide: Tolentino, Jia.
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