to the soundings, as the experience of a lived life to distinguish and make sense of the world,
as the embodied experience converted to the knowledge I would like to return to Bali once
more. Wikan writes: “consciousness is the essence of feeling-thinking, and experience is
being shaped and memories activated by the active engagement of feeling-thought” (Wikan,
1990, p. 35). Looking through this particular lens, emotions and feelings can then be accepted
as real and as validation of the given context or information. Arkar´s statement would then be
true as well and would explain how people can use their feelings to differentiate the
information given through Facebook. As we know, Facebook is the main access point in
Yangon to news and the internet in general. We also know that Facebook is not the most
trustworthy source as they, the company, are not responsible for the articles shared on their
platform. Facebook is a social platform, not a media house with given restriction to validated
facts, and therefore, one needs to be critical to what one finds on the given page. In the next
chapter, I will show how the performed sociality and produced social frames play out on
Facebook in Yangon. This is a discussion that gains more depth after the knowledge gained
from this chapter regarding the emotions, feelings, and emotional compass.
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