Digital Identity Resources (vis @catherinecronin)

Here are the links from Cathrine's presentation on Digital Identity that I think will be most helpful in terms of postmodernism.

Social network sites as networked publics (2010) by danah boyd (@zephoria)

Digital identities: Six key selves of networked publics (2012) by Bonnie Stewart (@bonstewart)

Digital dualism and the fallacy of web objectivity (2012) by Nathan Jurgenson (@nathanjurgenson)

The IRL Fetish (2012) by Nathan Jurgenson (@nathanjurgenson)

You are not your name and photo: A call to reimagine identity (2011), Wired article by Tim Carmody (@tcarmody)

We, our digital selves, and us – YouTube video (2012) by Alan Levine (@cogdog)

Please read and make notes!

The Web is REAL!

A2 Twitter Discussion - Storify

Here are all the tweets from today's Twitter discussion...

A2: The Matrix, Social Networks & Self-made Prisons

The Matrix is real but it's not a product of mainstream media. It's self-made, constructed by the public, proliferated by social networks. We are (knowingly) constructing personalised prisons for our minds; our realities essentially giant filter bubbles, made up of ideologies we accept. We are turning ourselves into thoughtless, marketing machines, exploited by the highest bidder.

Sounds scary doesn't it!? However, the more you think about it, the more 'real' it becomes...

During the first week back I want to make a more congruous link between the work we did on 'digital self' and Baudrillard's theories of "hyperreality" explored in 'The Matrix'. 

We'll be looking at, analysing, evlauating and debating the following material. If you've got your essay out of the way, then you may want to get a head start...

Sherry Turkle: Aspect of The Self

Danah Boyd: Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life

Steven Handel: The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

Christine Rosen: Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism

Pieter Boder: Habermas' heritage: The future of the public sphere in the network society

Cass Sunstein: The Daily We - Is the Internet really a blessing for democracy?

Helen Keegan: The Paradox of Openness: The High Costs of Giving Online

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Thanks go to Catherine Cronin for sharing the material for her 'Social Media Classroom' online.

Who is Rufi Franzen?

Some links to follow on from today's talk... and thanks again to Helen Keegan for joining us.

Helen's Twitter: @heloukee

Rufi Franzen's Twitter: @RufiFranzen

Rufi Franzen's Tumblr: http://thefranze.tumblr.com/

Chales Leadbeater animated video about his book 'We Think'

Charles Leadbeater on 'The Power of Mass Creativity'

Sean Stewart on storytelling and transmedia

And the quotes / key terms:

Sean Stewart: "The makers and the consumers are in tango"


Transmedia

Hyperreality


Charles Leadbeater: "...pebbles and boulders" <-- describing difference/relationship between user generated media and traditional media.

Also look up 'Reply Girls' on YT.

See you tomorrow...

Something to chew on, over the weekend...

Postmodern Media - Digital Identity / Digital Self.

"Your 'Digital Self' is your online avatar, internet versions of yourself, the way you represent yourself online."

Questions:

• Do people represent themselves honestly online?
• Are the 'physical you' and the 'digital you' separate? 
• Which version of you is the most real? The 'physical you' or the 'digital you'?

Please reply to this post, providing your answers and your arguments/evidence...

Postmodern Media: Digital Identity vs Digital Self

Two useful videos as we come towards the end of the unit:

Network from Michael Rigley on Vimeo.

"Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network."

WoW from aram bartholl on Vimeo.

"The WoW project takes this mode of publicizing players’ names that’s typical of online 3D worlds and transfers it into the physical domain of everyday life. Participants of the WoW-workshop will be able to construct their own name out of cardboard and then parade around in public with it hovering above their head. What happens when a person’s customary anonymity in the public sphere is obliterated by the principles operative in virtual worlds online?"

I came across the two videos via Dean Groom. He makes some thoughtful comments in his original post as well.

Sherry Turkle: Who Am We? (Wired)

"We are moving from modernist calculation toward postmodernist simulation, where the self is a multiple, distributed system."

Read more...