Influence(rs)

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Likes, lighting, and Lil Miquela. Influencers have taken over the online world, promoting everything from brands to lifestyle changes. But, what does it mean to exert influence over somebody and how has the rise of social media created a whole new category of the influencer? In episode 60 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss the job and person we now know as the influencer and how objectification and relationships play into this role.

Works Cited

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Talcott Parsons, “On the Concept of Influence”
Time Magazine, “The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet”

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Pena Guzman.
0:08.7	And I'm Ellie Anderson.
0:10.2	Welcome to Overthink.
0:12.0	The podcast were two friends, who are also professors,
0:15.6	put philosophy in dialogue with the everyday.
0:18.7	Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.
0:30.1	David, I want to start this episode by telling you about a run-in that I had with an influencer.
0:36.2	This was maybe a year or two ago, and I was in the midst of
0:41.8	reorganizing some things in my apartment, and I needed a new bookshelf. Always, like,
0:45.8	needing new bookshelves is just the permanent condition of being an academic. You measure your
0:51.5	success by the number of bookshelves that you have. Or, like, what kind, you know, if you have to upgrade your bookshelf because your old ones aren't cutting it anymore, they're starting to sag in the middle, et cetera. In any case, I need a new bookshelf. I was perusing Facebook Marketplace, which is an excellent place to find local wares for great deals. Agreed.
1:11.1	Love it.
1:11.8	It's so good.
1:13.1	Underrated.
1:26.9	Underrated. Overrated. No, wait, no, it's better than people think. That's what I mean. Go on. It's underrated. I just pause because I feel like it's rated highly among my friends. So I'm like, is it a secret that people don't know about? or is it just that it's rated as it should be among my friend group, which is highly.
1:28.7	Oh, well, we know I don't know what's happening with Trent.
1:31.2	So, secret that people don't know about, or is it just that it's rated as it should be among my friend group, which is highly. Oh, well, we know I don't know what's happening with trends. So it's just
1:32.0	that it's underrated for me, but I'm out of every loop ever. True. So apparently it is highly
1:38.2	rated among even some of the influencers among us because I bought this bookshelf from Facebook
1:43.2	Marketplace. And when I saw who was selling it,
1:47.0	I was like, you know what? That photo looks a little bit familiar. Do I know that person? And then I realized
1:52.6	that it was an influencer who I follow online, specifically an interior decor influencer.
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