Nathan Jurgenson

Nathan Jurgenson is a social media theorist and sociologist who worked at Snap Inc. from 2013 to 2022. He is the author of The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media (2019) and was the founder and editor in chief of Real Life magazine. He is best known for coining the term "digital dualism" to describe the false belief that the internet is a separate virtual sphere, and for his writing on the impermanence of digital identity and the concept of the "liquid self." He also co-founded the Theorizing the Web conference and co-created the Cyborgology blog.