The Digital Double: Performance, Technology, and the Selfie Subtitle:

In Episode 2, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan and Pravanesh Subramanian explore the "digital double"—the algorithmic persona shaped by our online life. Using Goffman’s "staged performativity," they analyze how platform architecture dictates our self-presentation to both humans and AI. Selfies are now data points in an "image ecology" used for machine learning & surveillance. As generative AI untethers the self from reality, who truly controls our identities in this automated age?