Week 5
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Week 5
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[edit] Video
Identity 2.0 Dick Hardt
[edit] Week 5
- Notes
- Speaking this Friday at 3PM
- Facebook group, email me your proposals
- This Week's Del.icio.us links
- Related Readings
[edit] Term Project proposal discussion
- 1-2 minutes about your project, why it interests you, how its relevant to your goals
- Questions about term project, etc.
[edit] Research feedback
- New survey, your opinions
- Pilot testing this week, you'll receive an email
[edit] Exploring Digital Identity
- What is identity in the age of social networks?
- Identity in context - questions around concepts of identity
- Altman's boundaries - Identity, Temporal, Disclosure - Reframing questions of identity on the internet.
- Larger questions - does the internet free us? Restrict us? Your observations
- The culture and politics of Facebook - what identity norms are being enforced?
- Why were MUDS and MOO's MudConnect, MUD Wikipedia
- Facebook as the suburbs of the imagination, why?
- Identity freedom in Facebook? What are the larger identity implications?
- Why feel so strongly towards technology, and why do we use it as a space for identity play?
- Should we support multiple identities in technology?
- How many of us have friended anonymous users?
- Do OSN's force an identity disclosure?
[edit] Thurlow
- Traditional concepts of identity - Fixed, unary, the "real me"
- New concepts of identity - Fluid, socially constructed, identity to identification
- Identity of the past was place based, along geographic lines; one had little agency to establish new identities
- The post-spatial identity, with technologies we can access and appropriate different identities.
- The web as a technology of the self - empowering us to write our own narratives into being
- Are we liberated by CMC/SNS? Can we still find freedom?
[edit] Turkle
- Why are computers spaces for identity play?
- How do we construct this reality? What are the affordances and technologies that enable this reality?
- Depersonalization, deindividuation and projection in CMC
- Disconnect between natives and naturalized citizens?
- "What will CMC do to our committment to other people? Will it satisfy our needs for connection and social participation, or will it further undermine fragile relationships?"
- What parts of Turkle's treatment ring true today? What parts haven't aged well?
- When computers can offload simple taks, should we constantly remind ourselves of their non-humanness? Does it matter? Does this contribute to our virtuality?
- What happens when we start to take computers at interface value?
- Identity as a set of "roles" to be mixed and matched
- Play and its role in building identity
- Screen personae as opportunity for expression
- The "continual process of creation and recreation"
- Erickson "the playing adult steps sideways into another reality, the playing child advances forward into new stages of mastery"
