The Malleable Self: Molding Identity in Digital Spaces

In this episode Neha Gupta, Mom Mitra, and Ankita Das discuss the nature of online personas and the deliberate labor of digital self-fashioning. They trace the evolution of self-presentation from the era of formal, film-based documentation to the age of the instant selfie and the transition of the photograph from a private family memory to a public performative act - but at what cost?