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Record W4409948510 · doi:10.1177/00033286251336222

Excarnating and Incarnating the Self: Social Media and Being

2025· article· en· W4409948510 on OpenAlexaff
Rob James

Bibliographic record

VenueAnglican Theological Review · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMedia, Religion, Digital Communication
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSelf representationSociologySocial psychologyPsychologyPhilosophyHumanities

Abstract

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The article explores the theological and philosophical implications of social media on personal identity, employing the Christian doctrine of the incarnation and the philosophy of Michel Henry. It argues that social media platforms pose significant dangers of “excarnation,” where users create disembodied, curated identities leading to fragmented selves and associated psychological issues. Conversely, it highlights opportunities for integration and authenticity through supportive online communities and activism. By examining biblical narratives, particularly the Garden of Eden and the figure of Jesus as the “second Adam,” this study highlights the contrast between incarnate, authentic being, and digital self-fragmentation. Michel Henry’s phenomenology provides a critical theological framework for assessing how social media influences self-understanding. Ultimately, the article calls for a conscious engagement with digital spaces that prioritizes authenticity and integration, reflecting the divine image in human existence.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.908
Threshold uncertainty score0.479

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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